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  • noun Plural form of peapod.

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Examples

  • Nor did it matter that Mendel's newly celebrated laws of heredity might make good sense for peapods, but not for thinking, feeling men, women and children.

    Continued: Eugenics Thread 2008

  • So when the facts about Mendel's peapods appeared in America in 1900, these influential and eloquent thinkers were able to slap numbers and a few primitive formulas on their class and race hatred, and in so doing create a passion that transcended simple bigotry.

    Continued: Eugenics Thread 2008

  • Many still have the peapods they used as teenagers, pulling their first traps decades ago.

    Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010

  • Portraiture meets still life when 17 examples of Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's work goes on display at the National Gallery of Art. The portraits, on view in the United States for the first time, reveal the artist's wild imagination, crafting cheeks out of onions, painting flowers to represent skin and depicting eyelids as peapods.

    Up next: September arts 2010

  • Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's work, some of which is on view in the United States for the first time, reveals the artist's wild imagination, crafting cheeks out of onions, painting flowers to represent skin and depicting eyelids as peapods.

    Free and easy events 2010

  • Spiky trees bearing what looked like giant wooden peapods leaned in over the road as we navigated the ruts.

    Christian Beckwith: Greening the Barrio, Part 8 2009

  • For my dinner I maded some pasta and added some steamed shrimps wif peapods.

    And so, the world - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • With the prongs of his fork, he prods thin carrot strips and peapods on his plate.

    Green Animals Sandra Rouse 2009

  •  With the prongs of his fork, he prods thin carrot strips and peapods on his plate.

    Green Animals 2009

  • He knew that just beyond our neat suburban fence hordes of predators were massing, poised to move in on the very first peapods.

    Helen Rogan: Gardening as Blood Sport 2009

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