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  • adjective shaped like a pouch

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Examples

  • This nest, pouch-shaped, and open at the top, is fastened to the branch of a tree, and sometimes is interwoven with the twigs of a waving bough.

    Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader John L. H��lshof

  • Indenting the rock-bound coasts are a hundred pouch-shaped harbors such as are but rarely found in the other islands and shores of the

    Cuba, Old and New 1893

  • Of the six floral leaves which every orchid, terrestrial or aerial, possesses, one is always peculiar in form, pouch-shaped, or a cornucopia filled with nectar, or a flaunted, fringed banner, or a broad platform for the insect visitors to alight on.

    Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

  • All the other vertebrates have a compressed, thick, pouch-shaped heart, which develops from the wall of the gut at the throat, and from which the blood-vessels proceed; in the Amphioxus there is no special centralised heart, driving the blood by its pulsations.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

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