pod

The long outer covering that holds the seeds of plants such as peas and beans.

• The pod contains five peas.
• We picked fresh bean pods from the garden.
• Split the pod and remove the seeds.

Similar words: seedpod

Common phrases: pea pod, bean pod, open a pod

A very small enclosed space where one person can stay or sleep.

• My pod had a bed and a light.
• The airport offers sleeping pods for tired travellers.
• We each booked a pod for the night.

Similar words: capsule, sleeping compartment

Common phrases: sleeping pod, hotel pod, stay in a pod

A small separate area within a larger office, arranged for a particular kind of work.

• Our team shares a pod near the window.
• The office has quiet pods for private calls.
• They moved the sales staff into a larger pod.

Similar words: workspace, office section

Common phrases: office pod, meeting pod, work in a pod

A small replaceable container of nicotine liquid used in an electronic cigarette.

• The pod is empty.
• This device uses replaceable nicotine pods.
• He fitted a new pod into his vape.

Similar words: cartridge

Common phrases: vape pod, refill a pod, replace the pod

A recorded programme you can listen to online; a short way of saying podcast.

• I listened to your pod yesterday.
• Who is the guest on this week's pod?
• They discussed the match on their latest pod.

Similar words: podcast

Common phrases: weekly pod, listen to a pod, on the pod

A small section of a prison containing a group of cells or living spaces.

• The guard entered the pod.
• Each prison pod holds twenty inmates.
• Prisoners in this pod share a common room.

Similar words: prison unit, cell block

Common phrases: prison pod, housing pod, pod of cells

If a plant does this, it produces cases containing seeds.

• The beans are starting to pod.
• These peas pod well in cool weather.
• Our plants podded earlier than expected.

Common phrases: begin to pod, pod well, pod early

To take peas out of their outer cases.

• Please pod the peas.
• We podded a bowl of fresh peas before dinner.
• She was podding peas at the kitchen table.

Similar words: shell

Common phrases: pod peas, pod fresh peas, pod the peas