peapod

See also: pea pod

English

peapod (plural peapods)

(botany) The pod of the pea plant, that holds the seeds (the peas) until they ripen
(informal) The pod and its contents as a vegetable; the mangetout
(materials science) A hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.
(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.

botany