seed-pod

Awake, aware in tented night, a flax bush shuffled glissé tread of frond on frond and seed-pod prattle marching on the fractious wind surrounds the tent, and lake, and night.

Archive 2008-08-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

There are no lions, coconut trees, or giant crabs I'm about a 12 hour bus-ride from the ocean, but these do exist on Zanzibar, and there is only one type of breakfast-food-like seed-pod that grows on trees.

An Alaskan in Tanzania......................And on to Honduras Gail 2007

There are no lions, coconut trees, or giant crabs I'm about a 12 hour bus-ride from the ocean, but these do exist on Zanzibar, and there is only one type of breakfast-food-like seed-pod that grows on trees.

Archive 2007-06-01 Gail 2007

Made entirely of paper, the seed-pod shaped coffin is entirely biodegradable and environmentally safe.

Ecopod Coffin « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2007

Knowledge locked in verse from a time when books were hard to make and harder to protect, from a time when Pasho wandered like dandelion seeds between far-flung villages, holding up their palms in greeting to show the Open Eye and beg their free movement, dispensing their knowledge as far as their seed-pod minds could carry them, hoping to set down roots, and begin schools where they would seed new Pasho further afield.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

Moreover, it was not only in the last-named that familiar features had reappeared, as invisible till then in her face as the inturned parts of a seed-pod, the eventual opening out of which would never be suspected.

Time Regained 2003

Pattie wondered if these food centers used replicators or whether they cooked their root-aphid puddings and seed-pod pilafs the old way.

Breakdowns Scott Ciencin 2003

I think they got the idea from this show about these seed-pod people taking over the earth.

Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

The aircraft cracked in half, a seed-pod giving up its spores, an egg yielding its mystery.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

A single capsule, or seed-pod, contains about a thousand seeds.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr