Pod Definition

pŏd
podded, podding, pods
noun
pods
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.
Webster's New World
A dry, several-seeded, dehiscent fruit.
American Heritage
A podlike container, as a cocoon of a locust.
Webster's New World
Any of various enclosures, as a streamlined housing for a jet engine attached to an aircraft.
Webster's New World
An deposit of rock or sediment that is much longer than it is wide.
American Heritage
verb
podded, podding, pods
To bear pods.
Webster's New World
To swell out into a pod.
Webster's New World
To remove (seeds) from a pod.
American Heritage
suffix
Foot; footlike part.
Pleopod.
American Heritage
affix
Webster's New World
Foot.
Pleopod.
Webster's New World
One having (a specified number or kind of) feet.
Arthropod.
Webster's New World
Having (a specified number or kind of) feet.
Webster's New World
abbreviation
Print on demand.
Wiktionary
Wiktionary
(computing, programming) Plain old data (i.e. a data structure with fields but no methods, properties, etc.)
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Pod

Noun

Singular:
pod
Plural:
pods

Origin of Pod

  • From Middle English *pod (“seed-pod, husk, shell"), from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak"), from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt"), from Proto-Indo-European *baitā- (“woolen clothes"). Cognate with Old Saxon pÄ“da (“skirt"), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt"), Gothic [script?] (paida, “mantle, skirt"), Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit"), Ancient Greek [script?] (báitā, “goat-skin, fur-coat or tent").

    From Wiktionary

  • From New Latin -podium (from Greek podion podium) and from New Latin -poda -footed neuter pl. of -pūs (from Greek -pous) (from pous pod- foot ped- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From a special use of Etymology 1. See above.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to pod using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

Words Ending With

Unscrambles

pod