noun

• (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
• (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
  "cart, that is clouted and shod, cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod"
• (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
• (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.
  "These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods."

verb

• (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
  "Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence."
• (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
• (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
  "Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers."
• (intransitive) To swell or fill.

noun

• (uncountable, publishing) Initialism of print on demand.
• (logistics) Initialism of proof of delivery.
• (uncountable, programming) Initialism of plain old data.