pod

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A group of marine mammals, such as whales, or of certain other animals, such as hippopotamuses.
• noun The lengthwise groove in certain boring tools such as augers.
• noun The socket for holding the bit in a boring tool.
• noun A dehiscent fruit of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting along two sides.
• noun A dry, several-seeded, dehiscent fruit.
• noun Zoology An egg case of certain insects, especially a locust or other orthopteran.
• noun Geology An deposit of rock or sediment that is much longer than it is wide.
• noun A casing or housing forming part of a vehicle, as.
• noun A streamlined external housing that encloses engines, machine guns, or fuel.
• noun A detachable compartment on a spacecraft for carrying personnel or instrumentation.
• noun Something resembling a pod, as in compactness.
• intransitive verb To bear or produce pods.
• intransitive verb To expand or swell like a pod.
• intransitive verb To remove (seeds) from a pod.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A bag; a pouch.
• noun (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
• noun (Zoöl.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.
• noun an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun botany a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers)
• noun a small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations
• verb intransitive To bear or produce pods
• verb transitive To remove peas from their case.
• verb intransitive To swell or fill.
• noun A group of whales, dolphins, porpoises or hippopotami.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb produce pods, of plants
• noun a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
• noun a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
• verb take something out of its shell or pod
• noun the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
• noun a group of aquatic mammals