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pouched, a.|paʊtʃt| [f. pouch + -ed.] 1. Furnished with or having a pouch or pouches. a. Zool. (a) Having a gular pouch, as certain birds; (b) having cheek-pouches, as certain rodents, etc.; (c) having a pouch in which the undeveloped young are carried, marsupial: see sense 4. b. Anat. and Path. Having or forming pouches, cavities, or dilatations. c. Dressmaking. (See pouch v. 5.)
1834Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. I. 337 The Pouched Storks..which have an appendage under the middle of the throat, resembling a thick sausage. 1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia IV. 96 The Camas pouched rat is common in N. America, on the banks of the Columbia river. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man xx. 401 Peopled exclusively with pouched quadrupeds. 1897Westm. Gaz. 8 July 3/2 Make a simple pouched bodice of mauve and white foulard. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 825 The vessels are generally thin-walled, pouched and varicose. 2. [f. pouch v. 1.] Put or enclosed in a pouch.
1905Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 3/1 Home-sick Kaffirs..trail along in Indian file with the pouched wages which are to buy wives and cattle. 3. Comb., as pouched-lipped adj. (cf. pouch v. 3).
1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 137 Where the pouch'd-lipp'd cuckoo-bud From its snug retreat was torn. 4. pouched mouse, a small Australian marsupial resembling a mouse, belonging to the family Dasyuridæ, esp. the genera Antechinus and Sminthopsis; also called kangaroo-mouse.
1888O. Thomas Catal. Marsupialia in Brit. Mus. 287 Little Pouched Mouse. Size rather small, general form murine. 1896F. G. Aflalo Sk. Nat. Hist. Austral. ii. 28 In some of the pouched mice, the tribal badge is either replaced by a mere fold of bristles or else entirely wanting. 1907P. Fountain Rambles Austral. Naturalist vi. 60 The pouched-mouse varies its habits with its locality. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby iii. 40 There are perhaps a dozen kinds of pouched-mice, all Australian natives. 1970W. D. L. Ride Guide Native Mammals Austral. viii. 112 Kowari, Byrne's Pouched Mouse, Dasyuroides byrnei. Central Australia..; desert associations and grass⁓lands. |