pouch

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: pouch

1	n v	a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things put into a small bag
2	v	send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: pouch

Types:: show 12 types...; hide 12 types...; mail pouch, mailbag
pouch used in the shipment of mail; pocket
a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles; sporran
a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders; tobacco pouch
a pouch for carrying pipe tobacco; belt bag, waist pack
a small pouch (usually with a zipper) that attaches to a belt and is worn around the waist; breast pocket
a pocket inside of a man's coat; diplomatic pouch
a mail pouch that is sealed shut and that is used to carry communications between a legation and its home office; butt pack, fanny pack
a waist pack worn with the pouch in back; hip pocket
a pocket in rear of trousers; patch pocket
a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment; slash pocket
a pocket in a garment (usually below the waist) to which access is provided by a vertical or diagonal slit in the outside of the garment; vest pocket
a small pocket in a man's vest

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; gastric mill, gizzard, ventriculus
thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food; utricle, utriculus
a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open; atrial auricle, auricle, auricula atrii
a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart; auricula, auricular appendage, auricular appendix
a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart; cheek pouch
a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher); marsupium
an external abdominal pouch in most marsupials where newborn offspring are suckled; scrotum
the external pouch that contains the testes

Type of:: change form, change shape, deform
assume a different shape or form

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