podlike

noun

1. a dry fruit or seed vessel developed from a single carpel enclosing one or more seeds and usually splitting along two sutures at maturity, as a legume
2. a podlike container, as a cocoon of a locust
3. ☆ any of various enclosures, as a streamlined housing for a jet engine

intransitive verb podded, podding

1. to bear pods
2. to swell out into a pod