podcase
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]podcase (plural podcases)
- (botany) The case of a pod
- 2009 February 11, Dorian Q. Fuller Michael D. Purugganan, “The nature of selection during plant domestication”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7231, , pages 843–848:
- In some species, this selective pressure was not local but species-wide; evolution in maize, for example, turned the hard podcase of teosinte into easily milled, but still glumed, pod-corns and then into naked-grained cobs 41, 42 .