Definition of pouch in English:

pouch

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noun

1A small bag or other flexible receptacle, typically carried in a pocket or attached to a belt.
‘a tobacco pouch’
- ‘webbing with pouches for stun grenades’
- ‘The cartridges are carried in a clip in bunches of five, and these are carried in small leather pouches attached to the belt, several in a pouch.’
- ‘Basic webbing ammunition belts and pouches were supplemented by as many bandoliers as the soldier could carry without falling down.’
- ‘Kneeling, he took some birdfeed out of a pouch attached to his belt and placed it on Jack's cheek.’
- ‘Crane pushed his suspenders off his shoulders and grabbed at his pipe and fished his tobacco pouch from his pocket and began to stuff the pipe's bowl.’
- ‘He took a few practice swipes with it, and, upon finding no other place to put it, he placed it in a small pouch attached to his belt.’
- ‘Field packs, bags, belt cases, pouches and other carrying gear are available from manufacturers striving to capture consumers' attention.’
- ‘A cross-belt might carry his carbine or contain an ammunition pouch.’
- ‘He looked relieved, then reached into a pouch at his belt to produce his pipe and tobacco.’
- ‘One of the popular sections at the exhibition is the one featuring leather goods such as bags, purses, belts and pouches.’
- ‘Then he placed it into the small leather pouch at his waist.’
- ‘He also pulled out a smaller, leather pouch.’
- ‘She walked to the dresser, opened the jewelry box and pulled out the small velvet pouch.’
- ‘She released his hand, and patted the bulging pouch on her belt.’
- ‘He hunched down on the seat across from him and opened up a little drawstring pouch around his waist.’
- ‘She opened the little pouch at her belt and placed the leaves there.’
- ‘A pocket clip and a padded zippered carrying pouch are included.’
- ‘He pulled open a pouch hanging from his belt.’
- ‘He untied the heavy pouch at his side and dropped it onto the floor.’
- ‘The boy was digging through a pouch at his hip.’
- ‘I unzipped the side pouch on the bag and pulled out a new clip and loaded it.’
bag, purse, wallet, sack, sac, pocket, container, receptacle
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1. 1.1A lockable bag for mail or dispatches.
  ‘A spokesman for Royal Mail said secure pouches were strategically positioned to give a better service of delivery.’
  ‘A postwoman watched in amazement as two teenagers snatched her Royal Mail pouch bag full of letters while it was attached to her bike.’
  ‘Royal Mail has applied for planning permission for pouch boxes, which are used to store additional delivery bags on heavy rounds.’
  ‘Ponder on each of them before you open the diplomatic pouches or make responses.’
  ‘The kangaroo pouch containing the letters lay open on the table.’
2A pocket-like abdominal receptacle in which marsupials carry their young during lactation.
‘The primary difference is that the young are not raised in a special pouch, as in marsupials.’
- ‘The functions of the brood, incubating and marsupial pouches should be further investigated in relation to their osmoprotective and perhaps also trophic roles for the embryos.’
- ‘Two situations are considered, internal development of the embryos in closed incubating, brood or marsupial pouches, and external development in eggs exposed to the external medium.’
- ‘Most development takes place in the pouch, and the lactation period is prolonged.’
- ‘Like their seahorse relatives, male seadragons brood the eggs but under their tail instead of in an abdominal pouch.’
- ‘By the time they leave the pouches, the young sphaeromid juveniles have acquired a limited but efficient ability to hyper-osmoregulate, which increases in subsequent stages.’
- ‘As soon as they are expelled from the pouch, the young are on their own.’
- ‘It's a unique, dog-like marsupial that climbs trees, lives for only five years, and carries its young in a pouch that faces backwards.’
- ‘The young remains in the pouch another 6-8 weeks, until its spines begin to harden.’
- ‘Some lay their eggs in damp leaf litter, some create nests of foam, and some even carry their eggs or tadpoles in pouches on their backs.’
- ‘They are marsupials, which just describes the fact that they carry their young in a pouch.’
- ‘Other frog species have pouches to carry developing offspring, but the hip-pocket frog is the only one he knows of in which the male does the lugging.’
- ‘Could the fossa be a link between the marsupial and the mammals without pouches?’
- ‘The male seahorse has a pouch on its stomach in which to carry babies - as many as 2,000 at a time.’
- ‘They eat blueberries, heather and grass, rear their young in pouches and die in heavy snow.’
- ‘They have a well developed marsupial pouch that opens anteriorly.’
- ‘A male with his brood pouch is seen in the foreground, and two enclosed females in the back.’
- ‘The female deposits her eggs into a brood pouch found on the belly of the male.’
- ‘Notice the brood pouches on the ventral surfaces of depicted males.’
- ‘As everyone knows, baby kangaroos live in their mothers' pouches, and Joey is no exception.’
marsupium
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1. 2.1Any of a number of pocket-like animal structures, such as those in the cheeks of rodents.
  ‘I sucked all the spit from the pouches of my cheeks, making a nice squishy sound.’
  ‘He caught chipmunks whose cheek pouches were so stuffed with lodgepole pine seeds that not one more would fit.’
  ‘In the breeding season, Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches develop throat pouches that allow them to carry food back to their young at the nest.’
  ‘Food is swallowed for transport, not carried in the pouch.’

Pronunciation

pouch

/pouCH/ /paʊtʃ/

transitive verb

[with object]

1Put into a pouch.
- ‘he stopped, pouched his tickets, and plodded on’
2Make (part of a garment) hang like a pouch.
- ‘the muslin is lightly pouched over the belt’