| Pod 1. (n.) A bag; a pouch. 2. (n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. 3. (n.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals. 4. (v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods. 5. (n.) A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod. Thesaurus Entries army, bark, bay window, boll, bran, bunch, burr, capsule, case, chaff, cod, colony, corn shuck, cornhusk, corporation, drift, drive, drove, flock, follicle, gam, gang, herd, host, hull, husk, jacket, kennel, legume, legumen, litter, pack, palea, paunch, pease cod, peel, pericarp, pot, pride, rind, school, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, shoal, shuck, silique, skin, skulk, sloth, slough, trip, troop |