pouch : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher)
  

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• (Zoöl.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.

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• noun a mail pouch that is sealed shut and that is used to carry communications between a legation and its home office
  

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• noun a bag in which the body of a dead soldier is placed
  human remains pouch; body bag.
  

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• noun pouch used in the shipment of mail
  mailbag.
  

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• noun a bag in which the body of a dead soldier is placed
  human remains pouch; body bag.
  

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• a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.

Webster 1913

Pouch"-mouthed` adjective

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1. Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.

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• adjective satellite shaped like a pouch
  pouchlike; saclike; bursiform.
  

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Pouch"-shell` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).

Webster 1913

• noun mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried
  marsupial.
  

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• noun small burrowing Australian marsupial that resembles a mole
  Notoryctus typhlops; marsupial mole.
  

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• noun any of numerous small sharp-nosed insectivorous marsupials superficially resembling mice or rats
  marsupial rat; marsupial mouse.
  

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• noun burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
  gopher; pocket gopher.
  

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• noun white-flowered annual European herb bearing triangular notched pods; nearly cosmopolitan as an introduced weed
  Capsella bursa-pastoris; shepherd's purse.
  

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• (Bot.), an annual cruciferous plant (Capsella Bursapastoris) bearing small white flowers and pouchlike pods. See Illust. of Silicle.

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• noun a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco
  

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• (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes.

Webster 1913