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A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
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One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink.
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A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.
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Having pods.
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An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.
v. i.
To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
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Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
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A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.
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A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.
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An annual plant (Abelmoschus, / Hibiscus, esculentus), whose green pods, abounding in nutritious mucilage, are much used for soups, stews, or pickles; gumbo.
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A leguminous plant (Ornithopus scorpioides) of Southern Europe, having slender curved pods.
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The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil.
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A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
v. t.
To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod.
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One who collects pods or pulse.
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The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpaea, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.
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Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
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An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.
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An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.
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