podlike

Variant of pod

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

Origin: Early ModE < ?

intransitive verb podded, podding

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

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