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Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Pod

a small herd or school of birds or mammals; a small herd of seal or whales.

Examples : pod of birds; of coots, 1832; of porpoises; of seals, 1897; of sperm whales, 1840; of whales, 1898; of whiting.

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

pod or legume, dehiscent fruit of a member of the family Leguminosae ( pulse family). At maturity the pod splits along its two seams and releases the enclosed seeds.

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

pod A fruit that dehisces down both sides into 2 separate valves, which are most typically dry and somewhat woody. Pods are the characteristic fruit of the Leguminosae.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

pod XVII. prob. back-formation from dial. podware, podder (XVI), of unkn. orig., which succeeded to †codware (XIV; see COD1, WARE1).

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

pod, the collective name for a group of whales and small groups of seals.

M. V. Angel

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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

pod in aviation: see airplane .

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A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 | Copyright

pod See legume.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

pod •bod, clod, cod, god, hod, mod, nod, od, odd, plod, pod, prod, quad, quod, rod, scrod, shod, sod, squad, tod, Todd, trod, wad •demigod • amphipod • unipod •tripod • isopod • myriapod • decapod •cephalopod • monopod • macropod •gastropod • arthropod • sauropod •ramrod • Nimrod • hotrod • pushrod •goldenrod • Novgorod • slipshod •roughshod • eisteddfod • tightwad

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POD pay on death
• pay(ment) on delivery
• (ital.) Pocket Oxford Dictionary
• port of debarkation
• (USA) Post Office Department

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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "POD." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Pod Computing power-on diagnostics

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