Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a pouch, as a gopher, pelican, or marsupial.
- adjective Packaged in a pouch, as food or drink.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a pouch.
- One of the African hamsters of the genus Cricetomys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a marsupial pouch.
- adjective Having external cheek pouches.
- adjective Having internal cheek pouches.
- adjective (Zoöl.) See Zebra wolf, under
Zebra . - adjective (Zoöl.) the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage.
- adjective (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under
Pocket . - adjective (Zoöl.) See Pocket mouse, under
Pocket .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pouch .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a pouch
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Examples
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The giant rat, also known as the pouched rat, is one of Africa's largest rodents.!
15 Agouti 1991
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The man who had shown the small gold coin pouched it again and walked on.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray
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- Preservatives are not added to canned or "pouched" foods.
unknown title 2009
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- Preservatives are not added to canned or "pouched" foods.
unknown title 2009
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In recent years, officials have had to contend with Burmese pythons, which prey on native species; Gambian pouched rats, which can grow to the size of a cat and wreak havoc on crops; and pink hibiscus mealybugs, which inject toxic venom into plants.
Giant Alien Snails Attack Miami, Though They're Not in Much of a Rush Arian Campo-Flores 2011
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Apopo primarily trains African giant pouched rats to sniff land mines for de-mining activities in Mozambique, Thailand and other countries.
The Newest Recruit In the Fight on TB Frances Robinson 2011
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Maybe it's the pouched eyes or the deep furrows that stripe his forehead, apparent testament to years of worries and wounds and woes.
A Face to Match That Name Joanne Kaufman 2011
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Yashica is an African giant pouched rat, Cricetomys gambianus , that on a recent afternoon at the zoo here demonstrated his preternatural sense of smell by scuttling along a metal bench and sniffing out splotches of grenadine syrup.
The Newest Recruit In the Fight on TB Frances Robinson 2011
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For just as long as it takes the old gent to land another bunch of gold-pouched, retriever-snouted treasure-hunters, and no longer.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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“Accordingly, your canned tuna and pouched packed tuna are adulterated, in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have been rendered injurious to health,” the FDA wrote in a letter to the company on March 1.
Sorry, Charlie: FDA warns StarKist about food safety violations 2011
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