pod

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Botany A dehiscent fruit of a leguminous plant such as the pea.
2. n. Botany A dry, several-seeded, dehiscent fruit. Also called seedpod.
3. n. Zoology A protective covering that encases the eggs of some insects and fish.
4. n. A casing or housing forming part of a vehicle, as:
5. n. A streamlined external housing that encloses engines, machine guns, or fuel.
6. n. Aerospace A detachable compartment on a spacecraft for carrying personnel or instrumentation.
7. n. Something resembling a pod, as in compactness.
8. v. To bear or produce pods.
9. v. To expand or swell like a pod.
10. v. To remove (seeds) from a pod.
11. n. A school of marine mammals, such as seals, whales, or dolphins. See Synonyms at flock¹.
12. n. The lengthwise groove in certain boring tools such as augers.
13. n. The socket for holding the bit in a boring tool.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. 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.
2. n. The straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of augers and boring-bits.
3. n. The pike when nearly full-grown.
4. n. A school or shoal, as of fishes or whales; a group or number, as of seals or walruses.
5. To swell and assume the appearance of a pod.
6. To produce pods.
7. To drive seals or walruses into a pod or bunch for the purpose of clubbing them.
8. n. . The blade of a cricket-bat.
9. To assemble in small bands: specifically applied to the pups, or young, of the fur-seal.

Wiktionary

1. n. botany a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers)
2. n. a small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations
3. v. intransitive To bear or produce pods
4. v. transitive To remove peas from their case.
5. v. intransitive To swell or fill.
6. n. A group of whales, dolphins, porpoises or hippopotami.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A bag; a pouch.
2. n. (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
3. n. (Zoöl.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.
4. v. To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. produce pods, of plants
2. n. a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
3. n. a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
4. v. take something out of its shell or pod
5. n. the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
6. n. a group of aquatic mammals