Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POD, n. [In W. podi signifies to take in or comprehend; but I know not from what source we have this word.]

A vague term applied to a considerable number of different specific pericarps or seed-vessels of plants, such as the legume, the loment, the silique, the silicle, the follicle, the conceptacle, and even the capsule, &c.