单词 | pouch |
释义 | pouch /powch/, n. 1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, esp. one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch. 2. a small moneybag. 3. a bag for carrying mail. 4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition. 5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket. 6. Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment. 7. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye. 8. Anat. , Zool. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials. 9. Bot. a baglike cavity. v.t. 10. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket. 11. to arrange in the form of a pouch. 12. (of a fish or bird) to swallow. v.i. 13. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch. [1350-1400; ME pouche < AF, var. of OF poche; also poke, poque bag. See POKE2] |
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