| appendix |
a short closed tube of tissue that projects from the pouch at the beginning of the large intestine in the lower right-hand side of the abdomen; vermiform appendix. [1/3 definitions] |
| bag |
a flexible container, usu. made of cloth, paper, or leather, and used to hold things; sack; pouch. [1/11 definitions] |
| bladder |
an expandable sac or pouch in humans and animals in which gas or liquid, esp. urine, collects. [1/3 definitions] |
| cecum |
a cavity opening at only one end, esp. the pouch at the head of the large intestine. |
| codpiece |
a pouch or flap attached to the front of men's tight-fitting breeches or hose that concealed the crotch. Codpieces were typically used in the fifteen and sixteenth centuries in Europe. |
| cormorant |
any of several dark-colored, long-necked seabirds having a hooked bill and an expandable food pouch, often brightly colored, under the bill. |
| craw |
the pouch in the gullet of a bird or insect in which food is held and may be partially digested; crop. [1/2 definitions] |
| crop |
a pouch in the esophagus of a bird, in which food is stored and prepared for digestion, or a similar digestive organ in lower animals such as insects and earthworms. [1/12 definitions] |
| crosse |
a long-handled stick with a net pouch attached to one end, used to catch, throw, or carry a lacrosse ball. |
| diverticulum |
a tubular pouch or sac that branches out from a body canal, organ, or cavity, occurring as a normal or abnormal growth. |
| egg sac |
the pouch or cocoon in which many types of spiders deposit their eggs. [1/2 definitions] |
| jockstrap |
an elastic strap with a pouch to support a male's genitals during athletic activities; athletic supporter. |
| lacrosse |
a field game played by two teams of ten players each who use a long-handled stick with a net pouch on one end to carry or throw a ball into the opponent's goal. |
| marsupial |
having, concerning, or being similar to an animal's external pouch or fold of skin in which young are carried in their early stage of development. [3 definitions] |
| marsupium |
an external abdominal pouch or fold of skin bearing mammary glands in which a female marsupial keeps her young. |
| numbat |
any of several small Australian marsupials that have no pouch. |
| opossum shrimp |
a small shrimplike crustacean, the female of which carries her eggs in a pouch between the legs. |
| parfleche |
an article such as a pouch, case, or shield made of such rawhide. [1/2 definitions] |
| pelican |
any of several large water birds of warm climates that have a long bill with a distendable pouch in the lower half, for catching and holding fish. |
| pocket |
a small saclike piece of material, open at the top and sewn onto a garment to form a pouch for keeping coins and other small objects. [2/8 definitions] |
| pouch |
to put in or as if in a bag or pouch. [3/6 definitions] |