A seed pod is the case that holds a plant's seeds until they are ready. Split the seed pod.
Some open with enough force to throw the seeds several metres. A seed pod left on a plant tells it to stop flowering, which is why gardeners remove them.
1nounseed podThe case that holds a plant's seeds until they are ready.
“Every seed pod on the plant burst within about a week.”
seed pod is a case.
Seed plus pod; pod is of uncertain origin and appears in English in the sixteenth century.
From seed + pod.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Trees & Flowers