Meaning | A several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant. |
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Synonym | pod |
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Narrower | cowage | Pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them |
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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 |
loment | seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments |
okra | long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant |
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 |
Broader | fruit | The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
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Spanish | vaina |
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Catalan | bajoca, beina, tavella |
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