podcase en · NOUN
Etymology
From pod + case.
Meanings
-
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| podcases | Number=Plur | lexicographic |