peapod

See also: pea pod

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peapod (plural peapods)

  1. (botany) The pod of the pea plant, that holds the seeds (the peas) until they ripen
  2. (informal) The pod and its contents as a vegetable; the mangetout
  3. (materials science) A hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.
  4. (nautical) A small rowboat traditionally used for fishing and lobstering in Maine.
    • 1954, Elisabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, Down East Books, published 2014, page 52:
      A thick-shouldered boy in yellow oil pants and a duck-billed cap rowed by in a peapod, so close to the rockweed he would have seen her if he'd looked up.

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