noun. The lengthwise groove in certain boring tools such as augers.

noun. The socket for holding the bit in a boring tool.

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noun. A dehiscent fruit of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting along two sides.

noun. A dry, several-seeded, dehiscent fruit.

noun. An egg case of certain insects, especially a locust or other orthopteran.

noun. An deposit of rock or sediment that is much longer than it is wide.

noun. A casing or housing forming part of a vehicle, as.

noun. A streamlined external housing that encloses engines, machine guns, or fuel.

noun. A detachable compartment on a spacecraft for carrying personnel or instrumentation.

noun. Something resembling a pod, as in compactness.

intransitive verb. To bear or produce pods.

intransitive verb. To expand or swell like a pod.

intransitive verb. To remove (seeds) from a pod.

noun. A group of marine mammals, such as whales, or of certain other animals, such as hippopotamuses.

To swell and assume the appearance of a pod.

To produce pods.

To drive seals or walruses into a pod or bunch for the purpose of clubbing them.

noun. . The blade of a cricket-bat.

To assemble in small bands: specifically applied to the pups, or young, of the fur-seal.

noun. In botany, a more or less elongated cylindrical or flatfish seed-vessel, as of the pea, bean, catalpa, etc.; technically, a legume or silicle, but applied commonly to any dry dehiscent (mostly)sever-al-seeded pericarp, whether of one carpel (follicle, leg ume)or of several (capsule). See cuts under Arachis, balloon-vine, circumscissile, Crueiferæ, divi-divi, and Eriodendron.

noun. The straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of augers and boring-bits.

noun. The pike when nearly full-grown.

noun. A school or shoal, as of fishes or whales; a group or number, as of seals or walruses.

intransitive verb. To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

noun. A bag; a pouch.

noun. A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.

noun. A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.

noun. an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.

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noun. A group of whales, dolphins, porpoises or hippopotami.

noun. a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers)

noun. a small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations

verb. To bear or produce pods

verb. To remove peas from their case.

verb. To swell or fill.

verb. produce pods, of plants

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

noun. a detachable container of fuel on an airplane

verb. take something out of its shell or pod

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

noun. a group of aquatic mammals

"The term "pod," used to connote a blank person, has become so much a part of everyday speech that even people who've never seen the movies or read Finney's novel know the gist of the nightmare he gave to America."

black pod  to set around a pod  

pod bit  

peapod  podded  podding  seedpod  

acquire  animal group  container  develop  get  

Assad  Cod  Dodd  Fahd  God  

aircraft  bean  berry  capsule  compartment  

army  bag  bark  bay window  boll  

angiospermous  podded  podding  

podded  podding  pods