podlet

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pod +‎ -let

Noun[edit]

podlet (plural podlets)

  1. (rare) A small pod.
    • 2007 August 8, Andy Newman, “In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening”, in New York Times[1]:
      Now, next to the greenhouses, a walk-in cooler is filling up with little cotton sacks and plastic bags, each containing thousands of seeds in every possible shape and shade of earth tone — olive-green pellets, reddish-brown shields, fluffy tan podlets with little wings.