pea pod
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- noun
- /piː pɒd/
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vaina de guisante
- She walks past me to the long side of the table, puts down a bowl and a basket of pea pods.
- fresh pea pods
- snow pea pods
- 1 cup of pea pods
Examples
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She knew how fat a pea pod should be before she pulled its string to let the round green peas roll into her mouth.
Fiction book (2002) -
She eats frozen pea pods, baby corn, and those cloud-topped vegetables.
Fiction book (1994) -
And I am not letting one little pea pod go to waste.
Fiction book (1993) -
Would you like a pea pod with a shrimp?
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An order of shrimp and pea pods.
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You've got a pea pod and a zucchini?
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She picked a pea pod, ate it, and continued with the chore of picking enough for the freezer.
Fiction book (1990) -
The pea pods strike the pail with hollow thuds.
Fiction book (1990) -
I personally like Peppers, zucchini, corn, broccoli, pea pods, everything like that.
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For dinner, we prepared a delicious stir-fry with fresh pea pods and chicken.
Synonyms
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A long narrow case on a plant that holds seeds like peas
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A pod that contains seeds and opens when ripe
A pod that holds peas and is sometimes eaten with them
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the seed case of a pea plant' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'pea' (the seed) with 'pod' (the seed case); the noun–noun compound plainly denotes the case containing peas. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Pea pod shows a simple picture: a thin green pod that holds the round peas inside like little beads. Because it is the plant's 'seed case' that you can open and sometimes eat whole, pea pod today means the edible green case that contains the peas.