A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Pod (Eng.noun), “a dry and many-seeded dehiscent fruit, a legume or silique: (Jackson); “a dry dehiscent seed vessel or fruit that is either monocarpellary (as a legume, silique, or follicle) or composed to two or more carpels (as a capsule); specifically, a legume” (WIII): (in Leguminosae (Fabaceae) legumen,-inis (s.n.III), abl. sg. legumine, nom. & acc. pl. legumina, dat. & abl. pl. leguminibus; see legume; (in Cruciferae (Brassicaceae)) silicula,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. silicula, nom.pl. siliculae, dat.& abl.pl. siliculia; siliqua,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. siliqua, nom.pl. siliquae, acc.pl. siliquas, dat. & abl. pl. siliquis.

“Pod (as Dr. Martyn observes) is used both for the legume and the silique indifferently: but they are so distinct, that they ought not to have the same appellation. It seems better, therefore (the same ingenious writer remarks), to anglicize the Latin terms: and with respect to this, it is become sufficiently familiar to the English ear" [The Language of Botany] (Barton).

Pods are also called capsules (capsula,-ae (s.f.I) or follicles (foliculus,-i (s.m.II); see pyxis,-idis (s.f.III).

Corniculum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. corniculo: “in botany, a horn-shaped pod” (Glare).

Lobus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. lobo: capsule or pod of leguminous plants; see lobe (2): Oxylobium, from Gk. oxys, ‘sharp’ and lobos, ‘pod’ [Fabaceae] (Stearn 1996).

Lomentum,-i (s.n.II), q.v., abl. sg. lomento, loment, “a legume which is contracted between the seeds, falling apart at the constrictions when mature into one-seeded joints” (Jackson).

pod-like: “applied to such fruits as those of Corydalis, Hypecoum, and Cleome” (Jackson).