a pouch or cavity in certain animals, such as frogs and fishes, in which their eggs develop and hatch
2. another name for marsupium
Examples of 'brood pouch' in a sentence
brood pouch
Thus, a fully developed brood pouch was established.
Mari Kawaguchi, Ryohei Okubo, Akari Harada, Kazuki Miyasaka, Kensuke Takada, JunyaHiroi, Shigeki Yasumasu 2017, 'Morphology of brood pouch formation in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis',Zoological Lettershttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40851-017-0080-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
First, we employed several staining methods to characterize the pseudoplacenta and dermis of the brood pouch of mature male seahorses.
Mari Kawaguchi, Ryohei Okubo, Akari Harada, Kazuki Miyasaka, Kensuke Takada, JunyaHiroi, Shigeki Yasumasu 2017, 'Morphology of brood pouch formation in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis',Zoological Lettershttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40851-017-0080-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)