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Grammar : Noun, verb
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Phonetic Transcription : pɒd

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Définition of pod

Origin :
  • "seed of beans," 1680s, of uncertain origin; found earlier in podware "seed of legumes, seed grain" (mid-15c.), which had a parallel form codware "husked or seeded plants" (late 14c.), related to cod "husk of seeded plants," which was in Old English. In reference to pregnancy from 1890; in reference to a round belly from 1825. Meaning "detachable body of an aircraft" is from 1950. Pod people (1956) is from movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," based on novel by Jack Finney.
  • noun, verb encasement of vegetable seeds
Example sentences :
  • She is her father's own child and she is like him as two pase in the pod.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Over five thousand betting, and the guesses as close as peas in a pod.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • The pod is elliptical, and the cotton which bursts from it at maturity is snow-white.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • Rub the warts with the inside of a bean pod, and then throw the pod away.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Folk-Lore » by Elias Owen
  • "Yellow cotton" was cotton which for any reason had been stained in the pod.
  • Extract from : « Letters from Port Royal » by Various
  • The 'pod' or school was nearest to us, and we could see them quite plainly from the deck.
  • Extract from : « Rdan The Devil And Other Stories » by Louis Becke
  • When in fruit it carries a pod two feet in length, full of winged seeds.
  • Extract from : « The Forest Exiles » by Mayne Reid
  • The pericarp or pod contains about twenty-four prismatic-shaped nuts.
  • Extract from : « Commercial Geography » by Jacques W. Redway
  • On the fifth day he stretched out his feet and that bursted the pod.
  • Extract from : « A Treasury of Eskimo Tales » by Clara Kern Bayliss
  • Then, when the barque was off the Tonga Islands, a large "pod" of whales were sighted.
  • Extract from : « John Frewen, South Sea Whaler » by Louis Becke

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