pouchedadj.
/paʊtʃt/, U.S. /paʊtʃt/ 1.
a. Having a pouch or pouches; resembling a pouch.
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1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Hippolytus ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 62 She hanging downe her pouched groyne, abhors the lothsome light, Her skittish wits and wayward minde can fancy nothing right.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxx. 215 When he opened his pouched mouth, the tobacco hung about his great yellow teeth.
1895 New Era (Humeston, Iowa) 11 Sept. Keen brown eyes which shone out very brightly from between pouched under-lids and drooping upper ones.
1937 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 11 Feb. He is thin and semi-bald, with pouched eyes and a beaked nose.
1970 P. Berton National Dream ii. iii. 74 He had a massive head, a huge brow, pouched Oriental eyes and a fantastic tangle of side whiskers.
1990 S. Miller Family Pictures ii. xvii. 367 She sat with her pouched, sad face and watched me and waited for me to stop.
b. Anatomy, Biology, and Medicine. Shaped like or forming a pouch; having or forming pouches, cavities, or dilatations.
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1724 P. Blair Pharmaco-botanologia ii. 93 The spiked Flowers on the upper part of the Stalk are small, dark Blue, upon short Footstalks, and succeeded by flat, furrowed, Heart-like and pouched Seed Vessels, containing small seeds.
1877 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 167 641 The ventricle no longer contracted as a whole, but became pouched, the upper half seeming to overlap the under half so as to produce a transverse fold.
1886 Bot. Gaz. 11 296 This membrane, which is not smooth, but puckered and pouched in a peculiar way, pushes its borders up the sides of the tube.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 825 The vessels are generally thin-walled, pouched and varicose.
1999 Invertebr. Biol. 118 280/2 The wall may be simple, folded, or pouched. It generally has a ciliated cuboidal epithelium.
2001 Evolution 55 478/2 Penstemon palmeri flowers have rigid, pouched corollas with an open mouth that allows ready access to flower visitors.
c. Zoology. Having a distensible sac for the storage of food, as the bill of some birds, the cheeks of rodents, etc.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having cheek-pouches
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > of neck > having appendage or pouch on
pouched1781
wattled1782
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [adjective] > of or relating to rodents > having cheek-pouches
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1781 R. Pulteney Gen. View Writings Linnæus 78 Ibis. Beak arcuated; throat pouched.
1800 Trans. Linn. Soc. 5 227 The fore-feet..have claws differently formed from any of the pouched species hitherto described... Ash-coloured rat, with..pouched cheeks.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (new ed.) I. 337 The Pouched Storks..which have an appendage under the middle of the throat, resembling a thick sausage.
1900 Science 13 Apr. 570/1 America exclusively raised..the pouched rodents or Geomyidæ.
1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 26 Brown pelican is common. It is large, silvery-brown, with a long, flat, pouched bill.
d. Zoology. Of a mammal: having a pouch or marsupium in which the young are carried; marsupial.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [adjective]
marsupial1807
pouched1810
marsupiate1834
marsupian1835
didelphine1847
marsupialian1848
purse-bearing1859
didelphous1873
metatherian1880
1810 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 100 215 In the opossum tribe, and all the pouched animals in New South Wales, there is a peculiarity in the form of the female organs of generation, which has not been understood.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man xx. 401 Peopled exclusively with pouched quadrupeds.
1881 Times 28 Jan. 3/4 The smaller pouched herbivores have their slayers in the ‘native devil’ (sarcophilus), and in the dasyures or native cats.
1932 Amer. Naturalist 66 377 The clavicle..is well developed in all the pouched animals (Marsupialia) except the bandicoots.
1985 E. H. Colbert Wandering Lands & Animals (new ed.) viii. 211 Australia today is the home of kangaroos and wallabies..—of wombats, phalangers, and a host of other pouched mammals.
2. Of an article of clothing, piece of fabric, etc.: having a pouch-like form. Cf. pouch v. 6.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [adjective] > other
poted1609
bombastical1650
slash1799
raglan1858
jetted1866
bretelle1890
ruched1896
pouched1897
flapless1916
plunged1941
bat-wing1959
scoopy1970
1897 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 7 May Pouched bodices have vigorously renewed their popularity, and some of the latest models are pouched at the back as well as the front.
1923 Times 17 Dec. 9/4 A ‘slip-over’ shaped tea-frock with a slightly pouched bodice is 98s. 6d.
1961 Times 6 Mar. 15/1 This in fine grey flannel, the three-tiered wrap-around skirt, loosely pouched bodice and plain neckline being fashion points here.
1964 Times 29 Feb. 6/1 Evening dresses were mainly narrow, gentle in line, soft crêpes with a little draping back or front, some with..that pouched line from a low round decolletage at the back.
3. That has been put in a pouch; (of food) sealed in a plastic package.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in or as in specific receptacles
barrelled1494
casked1624
pocketed1647
tunned1672
intubed1688
kitted1725
basined1745
canistered1843
pottled1845
carboyed1855
tubbed1882
sacked1895
pouched1905
cartoned1921
cupped1929
ampouled1969
slipcased1969
1905 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 3/1 Home-sick Kaffirs..trail along in Indian file with the pouched wages which are to buy wives and cattle.
1948 Amer. Midland Naturalist 39 538 The squirrels are often carrying pouched acorns which may be nibbled from time to time.
1982 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 11 Oct. a13/6 We're talking about pouched food that can be kept on the shelf—right along with the canned foods.
2003 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 30 Apr. c9/2 Even if you feel most comfortable cooking with canned and pouched seaford, don't shy away from cooking fresh and frozen fish and shellfish.
Compounds
C1. † pouched-lipped adj. Obsolete rare
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1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 137 Where the pouch'd-lipp'd cuckoo-bud From its snug retreat was torn.
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pouched dog n. rare. the thylacine, Thylacinus cynocephalus.
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1897 N.E.D. at Dog Pouched dog, a dasyurine marsupial of Tasmania, Thylacinus cynocephalus, also called zebra-wolf.
1939 Helena (Montana) Independent 13 Aug. 12/6 The Tasmanian wolf, or pouched dog, is sometimes called the zebra wolf because of the stripes across its back.
2003 D. Owen Thylacine i. 7 Robert Paddle..makes the point that the common, but incorrect, translation of its classification name..as ‘the dog-headed pouched dog’ is not just inelegant, but ‘borders upon the stupid and crass’. Other translations..seem little better: ‘the pouched dog with the wolf head’.
pouched gopher n. now rare a pocket gopher.
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1857 S. F. Baird Gen. Rep. Zool. in Rep. Explor. Route to Pacfic (U.S.War Dept.) VIII. i. 372 Geomys bursarius. Pouched Gopher.
1898 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 627/2 Pouched gophers..have a way of awakening nervous campers..by a series of firm upward pushes when they are driving tunnels and shoving up the dirt.
1961 J. C. Malin Grassland N. Amer. iii. 21 Among the rodents met for the first time were the pouched gopher and two species of ground squirrels of the prairies.
pouched marmot n. now rare a souslik (genus Spermophilus).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Spermophilus (spermophile) > spermophilus citellus (suslik)
earless marmot1771
souslik1774
zizel1775
pouched marmot1870
sisel1879
1870 H. P. Blackmore in E. T. Stevens Flint Chips 13 The musk sheep, reindeer, lemmings, pouched marmot, mammoth, and woolly rhinoceros, are all animals peculiarly adapted for living in an arctic clime.
1879 Scribner's Monthly Feb. 481/1 The pouched marmots drive tunnels under the snow.
1910 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Soc. 40 261 In the caves of the Altai Mountains the same two animals [sc. mammoth and woolly rhinoceros] are associated with the Irish elk, cave hyæna, brown bear, pouched marmot, beaver, [etc.].
pouched mouse n. (a) any of several burrowing rodents having cheek pouches; esp. (North American) a pocket mouse (now rare); (also) a small pouched rat, Saccostomus campestris, of southern Africa; (b) (chiefly Australian) a marsupial mouse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Dasyuridae > subfamily Phascogalinae > genus Phascogale (pouched mouse)
Phascogale1841
pouched mouse1853
kangaroo mouse1867
pocket mouse1877
Phascologale1888
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse > other types of
rock rat1781
rock mouse1843
pouched mouse1853
coffee-rat1859
bush-rat1867
brown-footed rat1884
rex1928
1853 Rep. Exped. Zuni & Colorado Rivers (U.S. Army Corps Topogr. Engineers) 49 The penecillated Pouched Mouse... Above yellowish brown, beneath white; tail longer than the head and body, penecillate with light-brown hair.
1888 O. Thomas Catal. Marsupialia Brit. Mus. 287 Little Pouched Mouse. Size rather small, general form murine.
1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iii. 40 There are perhaps a dozen kinds of pouched-mice, all Australian natives.
1963 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 4 164 The pouched mouse (Saccostomus ca[m]pestris) was probably also eaten.
1970 W. D. L. Ride Guide Native Mammals Austral. viii. 112 Kowari, Byrne's Pouched Mouse, Dasyuroides byrnei. Central Australia..; desert associations and grasslands.
1993 Global Ecol. & Biogeogr. Lett. 3 42 Pouched mice [sc. Saccostomus]..are similar in appearance to hamsters and get their name from the large cheek pouches which they use to transport food back to their burrows.
pouched rat n. any of several burrowing rodents having cheek pouches; esp. (a) North American a pocket gopher; (b) any of several African rodents of the genera Cricetomys, Saccostomus, and Beamys (family Muridae).
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1821 Med. Repository New Ser. 6 249 (title) The Gopher, or Pouched Rat of North America, (Mus bursarius).
1856 A. W. Whipple in Rep. Explor. Route Pacific (U.S. War Dept.) III. i. 90 New species of pouched rats, an owl, and magnificent antlers of a mountain sheep, had been secured.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pouched rat,..(b) One of the African hamsters of the genus Cricetomys.
1917 F. B. Sanborn Life H. D. Thoreau xii. 402 The name ‘gopher’..signifies a gray squirrel in Canada, a striped squirrel in Minnesota, and a pouched rat in Missouri.
1983 R. M. Nowak & J. L. Paradiso Walker's Mammals of World (ed. 4) II. 682 African pouched rats have robust bodies; broad, thick heads; and short, strong legs and toes.
1995 Jrnl. Zool. 236 499 The lesser pouched rat B[eamys] hindei, is one of Africa's rarest and least known rodents.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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