POUCH

Pouch

The pouch is a distinguishing feature of female marsupials ; the name marsupial is derived from the Latin marsupium, meaning "pouch". Marsupials give birth to a live but relatively undeveloped fetus called a joey. When the joey is born it crawls from inside the mother to the pouch. The pouch is a fold of skin with a single opening that covers the nipples. Inside the pouch, the blind offspring attaches itself to one of the mother’s nipples and remains attached for as long as it takes to grow and develop to a juvenile stage.

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pouch

Noun

  1. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
  2. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
  3. Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
  4. A protuberant belly; a paunch.
  5. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  6. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  7. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.

Verb

  1. To enclose within a pouch.
  2. To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  3. To swallow.
  4. To pout.
  5. To pocket; to put up with.


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