peapod

plural peapods · alternative pea pod

1. biologyThe pod of the pea plant, that holds the seeds (the peas) until they ripen
2. informalThe pod and its contents as a vegetable; the mangetout
3. materials scienceA hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.
4. nauticalA small rowboat traditionally used for fishing and lobstering in Maine.

   A thick-shouldered boy in yellow oil pants and a duck-billed cap rowed by in a peapod, so close to the rockweed he would have seen her if he'd looked up.

   1954, Elisabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, Down East Books, published 2014, page 52