Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word POUCH

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Definitions of POUCH

1. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
2. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
3. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
4. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
5. (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
6. (slang, dated, derogatory) A protuberant belly; a paunch.
7. (botany) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
8. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch.
9. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
10. (of fowls and fish) To swallow.
11. (obsolete, rare) To pout.
12. (obsolete) To pocket; to put up with.

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Examples of Using POUCH in a Sentence

• One of the defining features of marsupials is their unique reproductive strategy, where the young are born in a relatively undeveloped state and then nurtured within a pouch on their mother's abdomen.
• It has spawned numerous variants including Batsford, Easthaven, King Albert, Thumb and Pouch, Somerset or Usk and Whitehead, as well as the American variants of the games, Agnes and Westcliff.
• The name is something of a misnomer, considering that marsupials also nourish their fetuses via a placenta, though for a relatively briefer period, giving birth to less-developed young, which are then nurtured for a period inside the mother's pouch.
• They are characterized by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents before swallowing.
• The maternal instinct, in addition to Kanga's desire to always keep Roo close to her, in her pouch, is also evident in Kanga's willingness to adopt the newly arrived Tigger.
• The cecum or caecum is a pouch within the peritoneum that is considered to be the beginning of the large intestine.
• However, while Bartholin's glands are located in the superficial perineal pouch in females, bulbourethral glands are located in the deep perineal pouch in males.
• Females have white underbellies and males have a distinctive red gular pouch, which they inflate during the breeding season to attract females.
• When a meal pouch is placed in the bag and water is added, an exothermic reaction occurs which rapidly boils the water to heat the food.
• The upper sides of the neck have white lines along the base of the gular pouch, and the lower fore neck has a pale yellowish patch.
• They have a well-developed throat pouch, with an opening surrounded by a fleshy margin with inward pointing, coarse white hairs.
• It is the smallest of the wallabies (short, kangaroo-like marsupial mammals of the genus Notamacropus) and carries its young in a pouch, as with other marsupials.
• The bat uses echolocation to detect water ripples made by the fish upon which it preys, then uses the pouch between its legs to scoop the fish up and its sharp claws to catch and cling to it.
• Some other species hatch into tadpoles underneath the skin of the female adult or are kept in a pouch until after metamorphosis.
• It has a huge bill, a pink gular sac at its throat (crumenifer(us) means "carrier of a pouch for money"), a neck ruff, and white legs and black wings.
• Parathyroid glands are derived from the epithelial lining of the third and fourth pharyngeal pouches, with the superior glands arising from the fourth pouch and the inferior glands arising from the higher third pouch.
• Most male soloists carry a large lantern-like artifact on a large pole, resting on an oily pouch, which they spin at will.
• Each storyteller would begin their story by saying "Submitted for the approval of The Midnight Society, I call this story '(story name)'", at which point they would toss a handful of "midnight dust" (actually Coffee-Mate) from a leather pouch into a campfire to heighten the flames and produce an eerie white smoke.
• The honey badger possesses an anal pouch which, unusual among mustelids, is eversible, a trait shared with hyenas and mongooses.
• The name of the genus is derived from the Greek phragma, which means "division", and pedium, which means "slipper" (referring to the pouch).
• Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii) is an ornithological species named in his honor, as is the red alga Audouinella, and in the French language, the term poche copulatrice d'Audouin (the copulatory pouch of Audouin) is another name for the spermatheca.
• Ötzi (also called the "Iceman"), who lived around 3,300 BCE, had a belt with a pouch sewn to it that contained a cache of useful items: a scraper, drill, flint flake, bone awl, and a dried tinder fungus.
• In cases that require intervention, a catheter may be placed to drain the cyst, or the cyst may be surgically opened to create a permanent pouch (marsupialization).
• It relies on "pollination by deception", as it attracts insects to anther-like yellow hairs at the entrance to the pouch and forked nectary-like structures at the end of the pouch but produces no nectar that would nourish them.
• Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence of a brood pouch or "marsupium" in females.

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