pouch
part of speech
noun (a pouch, pouches); verb (pouch — rare)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pouch is a small soft bag, often closed with a string or zip, for carrying small things. tree →
2) A pocket of skin on the belly of some animals, like kangaroos, where their babies grow. tree →
3) A pocket of skin in the cheeks of some animals, like hamsters, for carrying food. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in science lessons about marsupials: kangaroos, koalas and wombats carry their babies (joeys) in a pouch. In everyday life: a pencil pouch, a drink pouch, a money pouch.
examples
- The baby kangaroo lives in its mother's pouch. tree →
- Put your pens in your pencil pouch. tree →
- The hamster stuffed seeds into its cheek pouches. tree →
- Koalas are marsupials and have a pouch. tree →
- He kept his coins in a leather pouch. tree →
- I had an apple juice pouch with my lunch. tree →
- A joey stays in the pouch for months. tree →
- I will fill your knapsack—I will fill your pouch.’ tree →
note
Countable: plural "pouches" (add -es after ch). Pronounced to rhyme with "couch". Animals with pouches are called marsupials.
In the corpora
- Male frigatebirds puff up a big red throat pouch to attract females, and frigatebirds can stay in the air for weeks without landing.
- And the Australian possum living in a roof is a different animal from the American opossum, though both carry their babies in pouches.
- Opossums are marsupials: the tiny babies grow in their mother's pouch and later ride on her back.
- Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners.
- A pelican's pouch scoops up about 10 litres of water, like a bucket, which it drains before swallowing the fish.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pouch» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.