pea-podとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Synchronically, pea +‎ pod; diachronically, from a 中期英語 predecessor compound.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈpiˌpɑd/

名詞

peapod (plural peapods)

1. (botany) The pod of the pea plant, that holds the seeds (the peas) until they ripen
2. (informal) The pod and its contents as a vegetable; the mangetout
3. (materials science) A hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.
4. (nautical) A small rowboat traditionally used for fishing and lobstering in Maine.
   • 1954, Elisabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, Down East Books, published 2014, page 52:

     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.