or Pod, in Botany; a species of seed-vessel which has two valves or external openings enclosing a number of seeds that are fastened along one suture only. In this last circumstance the seed vessel in question differs from that termed by botanists silique, in which the enclosed seeds are fastened alternately to both the sutures or joinings of the pod.

The seed-vessel of all the pea-bloom or butterfly-shaped flowers, the diadelphia of Linnæus, is of this pod kind. Such, for instance, is the seed-vessel of the pea, vetch, lupine, and broom.