peapod
nounUS /ˈpiˌpɑd/
Etymology Synchronically, pea + pod; diachronically, from a Middle English predecessor compound.
2
Informal The pod and its contents as a vegetable; the mangetout
3
A hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.
Materials science
- 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.1954, Elisabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, Down East Books, published 2014, page 52: