These were hunks of mineral, not rounded, podlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncharted Stars]

At first, the defense machines mowed through a wave of the podlike infection forms with little difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flood]

I'm clearly not up on my aliens, but I must say, any alien with a goopy, slimy podlike thing sends me under the covers scared.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: The Best Aliens in Science Fiction] Reference

In 1956, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York acquired her smallish, table-size cluster of primitive, podlike wooden forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trailblazing sculptor Louise Bourgeois, 98, dies; art inspired by traumatic past] Reference

The scene on the roof is jammed and noisy, as cool twentysomethings jostle for elbow room at the bar or colonize the red podlike cabanas by the pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [L.A. Rising] Reference

The Sarge started to bellow a reply, but it was as if a floodgate had opened somewhere, as a new wave of the obscene, podlike creatures rolled out of the darkness to overwhelm the humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flood]

The alternative rocket is similar to the current space shuttle, except that the orbiter mounted on the side of the fuel tank is replaced by a podlike container resembling a giant car-top carrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Watch: Shuttle News: July 2009 Archives] Reference

The local schoolchildren played their parts with relish on Friday as they chiseled away at podlike structures that seem to have all-purpose uses in this strange production, conceived by Mr. Gergiev and the set designer George Tsypin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kirov ‘Ring’: Young Local Talent - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

The ship also features 100-square-foot podlike studios designed for solo passengers.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

General Motors has shown its EN-V, for Electric Networked-Vehicle, a podlike two-seater for the megacities of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planetizen - Urban Planning, Design and Development Network] Reference

On a tour of the camp, President René Préval popped his head into one of the podlike tents and called it a tente de luxe.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

The prototype has minimal bodywork, but podlike enclosures (which look like computer mice on wheels) are imagined for production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheels] Reference

Yotel, a European company known for its podlike rooms, will open its first U.S. outpost with the Yotel Times Square West this spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [MarketWatch.com - Top Stories] Reference

Emily Cashman walked out of the Franklin Institute on a recent Saturday afternoon and from the top of the steps "I-spied" the podlike green buggy across the street, turned to her father, Bill, and said, "Let's do that!".    From Wordnik.com.  [CourierPostOnline.com - News] Reference

It operates in tandem with an equally impressive video-projection apparatus, housed in a podlike contraption out of the "Alien" movies, that throws crystalline images onto an exterior wall measuring seven thousand square feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

The handle's grip is soft, resonant, like some oversize hand massager, and thanks to rubber casters that spin 360 degrees, the podlike body doesn't so much turn corners as caress them, like a needy cat padding around your legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

The EN-V is a Pac-Man-like podlike successor to the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (P.U.M.A.), a Segway co-designed toy first shown at the New York Auto Show to prove former GM CEO Fritz Henderson was cool, hip and "with it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik] Reference