podcase

noun

podcase

noun

Etymology From pod + case.

1

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences The case of a pod

  • In some species, this selective pressure was not local but species-wide; evolution in maize, for example, turned the hard podcase of teosinte into easily milled, but still glumed, pod-corns and then into naked-grained cobs 41, 42 .2009 February 11, Dorian Q. Fuller Michael D. Purugganan, “The nature of selection during plant domestication”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7231, →DOI, pages 843–848:

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