Pod vs Fruit - What's the difference?
pod | fruit |
(botany) a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers)
a small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
To bear or produce pods
To remove peas from their case.
To swell or fill.
(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
In botany terms the difference between pod and fruit
is that pod is a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers while fruit is the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.As an initialism POD
is print on demand.pod
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Noun
(en noun)- (Tusser)
Derived terms
* peapod * seedpodSynonyms
* (sense) capsule, case, container, hull, husk, shell, vesselVerb
(podd)Etymology 2
From a special use of Etymology 1. See above.Synonyms
gamfruit
English
(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown