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pod¹ /pod/

1. The fruit, or its shell, in peas, beans, and other leguminous plants, the legume
2. Sometimes extended to the siliqua
3. An egg-case, eg of a locust
4. A silk cocoon
5. A musk-bag
6. A paunch
7. A groove along an auger or bit
8. The socket into which a bit, etc, fits
9. A protective housing for (external) engineering equipment, eg aircraft engines, nuclear reactor, space or submarine instruments, or for weapons carried externally, eg on an aircraft
10. A decompression compartment
11. A self-contained compartment, esp for meeting, observation or transportation

To shell or hull

1. To form pods
2. To fill as pods

poddˈy adjective

Corpulent

A young animal, esp a calf or lamb

pod² /pod/

1. A school, esp of whales or seals
2. Sometimes applied to groups of other animals, fish and birds

-pod /-pod/ or -pode /-pōd/

Denoting foot

pod- /pod-/

podo- /pod-ō-, -ə-, -o-, or pōd-/ or pod- /pod- or pōd-/

Denoting foot

pōˈdal or pōdalˈic adjective

Of the feet

podargus /pə-därˈgəs/ noun

(Gr podargos swift-footed) a bird of the frogmouth genus Podargus

podiˈatrist noun

podiatry /pod-īˈə-tri/ noun

(Gr iātros physician) treatment of disorders of the foot

podite /podˈīt/ noun

A walking leg of a crustacean

podocarp /pō-dō-kärp/ noun

(Gr karpos fruit) a yew tree of the eastern and southern genus Podocarpus

podoconioˈsis noun (medicine)

Endemic elephantiasis of the lower legs

Podogona /-ogˈə-nə/ noun

(Gr gonos reproductive organ) the Ricinulei (qv)

podolˈogist noun

podolˈogy noun

The scientific study of the feet

podophthalmous /-of-thalˈməs/ adjective

(Gr ophthalmos eye) having eyes on stalks, as do many higher crustaceans

podophyllˈin noun

A cathartic resin obtained from the rhizomes of the Podophyllum genus

Podophyllum /-ō-filˈəm, -ofˈi-ləm/ noun

(Gr phyllon leaf) a genus of the barberry family

Podostemon /-ō-stēˈmən/ noun

(Gr stēmōn warp, as if stamen, from the stalk on which the stamens stand) the typical genus of a family of dicotyledons, Podostemaceae /-māˈsi-ē/, growing in tropical waterfalls, the vegetative parts more like a thallus than an ordinary flowering plant

Podura /-dūˈrə/ noun

(Gr ourā tail) a genus of springtails

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