POD (podded, podding)

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Irregular inflected forms: podded    , podding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pod mean? 

• POD (noun)
  The noun POD has 4 senses:

1. the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

2. a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant

3. a group of aquatic mammals

4. a detachable container of fuel on an airplane

  Familiarity information: POD used as a noun is uncommon.

• POD (verb)
  The verb POD has 2 senses:

1. take something out of its shell or pod

2. produce pods, of plants

  Familiarity information: POD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cod; pod; seedcase

Hypernyms ("pod" is a kind of...):

husk (outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pod"):

pea pod; peasecod (husk of a pea; edible in some garden peas)

Derivation:

pod (produce pods, of plants)

pod (take something out of its shell or pod)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pod; seedpod

Hypernyms ("pod" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pod"):

legume (the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case)

peanut (underground pod of the peanut vine)

screw bean (spirally twisted sweet pod of screwbean mesquite that is used for fodder or ground into meal for feed)

okra (long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant)

cowage (pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey)

loment (seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments)

Derivation:

pod (produce pods, of plants)

pod (take something out of its shell or pod)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A group of aquatic mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("pod" is a kind of...):

animal group (a group of animals)

Meronyms (members of "pod"):

blower; cetacean; cetacean mammal (large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals)

pinnatiped; pinniped; pinniped mammal (aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A detachable container of fuel on an airplane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fuel pod; pod

Hypernyms ("pod" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Holonyms ("pod" is a part of...):

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

• POD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pod    ... he / she / it pods   
Past simple: podded   
Past participle: podded   
-ing form: podding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take something out of its shell or pod

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

pod peas or beans

Hypernyms (to "pod" is one way to...):

shell (remove from its shell or outer covering)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pod (a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant)

pod (the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Produce pods, of plants

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "pod" is one way to...):

acquire; develop; get; grow; produce (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

pod (a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant)

pod (the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves))

 Context examples 

Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uranus, the planet of genius and innovation, has recently settled into your third house of communication, which covers all the disciplines associated with the communication arts, namely writing, editing, speaking, coding, pod casting, translating, and researching, so now and in years to come, you can spin a talent in one of these areas into gold.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Can you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and elsewhere, there are bats that come at night and open the veins of cattle and horses and suck dry their veins; how in some islands of the Western seas there are bats which hang on the trees all day, and those who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them, and then—and then in the morning are found dead men, white as even Miss Lucy was?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)