Definition of pod

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Pod (n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous..

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Platypoda :: Platypoda (n. pl.) Same as Prosobranchiata.
Naseberry :: Naseberry (n.) A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla.
Crocin :: Crocin (n.) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora..
Stylopodium :: Stylopodia (pl. ) of Stylopodiu.
Insect :: Insect (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion..
Shale :: Shale (n.) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
Poecilopoda :: Poecilopoda (n. pl.) By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.
Scaphognathite :: Scaphognathite (n.) A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.
Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..
Monopodia :: Monopodia (pl. ) of Monopodiu.
Spirillum :: Spirifer (n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side..
Zapotilla :: Zapotilla (n.) See Sapodilla.
Sappodilla :: Sappodilla (n.) See Sapodilla.
Isopodiform :: Isopodiform (a.) Having the shape of an isopod; -- said of the larvae of certain insects.
Arthromere :: Arthromere (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.
Monopodial :: Monopodial (a.) Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk..
Whelk :: Whelk (n.) Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe..
Eucopepoda :: Eucopepoda (n. pl.) A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.
Belemnite :: Belemnite (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages..
Septicidal :: Septicidal (a.) Dividing the partitions; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.
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