Word Meanings - PEASCOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.

Related words: (words related to PEASCOD)

• LEGUMEN
  See LEGUME
• LEGUME
  A pod dehiscent into two pieces or valves, and having the seed attached at one suture, as that of the pea. Note: In the latter circumstance, it differs from a siliqua, in which the seeds are attached to both sutures. In popular use, a legume is
• PERICARP
  The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
• PERICARPIAL; PERICARPIC
  Of or pertaining to a pericarp.