A female kangaroo carries its young in the pouch.
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Pouch
//paʊt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "pouch" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
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10 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
5 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
etymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
4 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
43 entriesShowing 16 of 43 words.
used for
53 entriesShowing 16 of 53 words.
Translations
109 translations across 39 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- trastë noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- βαλλάντιον noun (small bag)
- μάρσιππος noun (small bag)
Armenian
2 entries- քսակ noun (small bag)
- քսակ noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Bashkir
2 entries- тоҡсай noun (small bag)
- янсыҡ noun (small bag)
Bulgarian
4 entries- кеси́я noun (small bag)
- торба́ noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- торби́чка noun (small bag)
- прибирам в торба verb (to enclose in a pouch)
Catalan
1 entries- marsupi noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 囊 noun (small bag)
- 育兒袋 /育儿袋 noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- 袋 noun (small bag)
Czech
3 entries- vak noun (small bag)
- vak noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- váček noun (small bag)
Esperanto
2 entries- marsupio noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- saketo noun (small bag)
Finnish
4 entries- pussi noun (small bag)
- pussi noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- pussukka noun (small bag)
- lähettää kuriirilla verb (to transport in a diplomatic pouch)
French
4 entries- besace noun (small bag)
- blague à tabac noun (small bag)
- bourse noun (small bag)
- giberne noun (small bag)
Galician
4 entries- argán noun (small bag)
- badaza noun (small bag)
- barxoleta noun (small bag)
- besa noun (small bag)
German
2 entries- Beutel noun (small bag)
- Beutel noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Greek
2 entries- μάρσιπος noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- σακούλα noun (small bag)
Hindi
3 entries- थैला noun (small bag)
- थैली noun (small bag)
- थैली noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Hungarian
2 entries- erszény noun (small bag)
- erszény noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Irish
1 entries- tiachóg noun (small bag)
Italian
1 entries- sacchetto noun (small bag)
Japanese
1 entries- 袋 noun (small bag)
Latin
2 entries- marsūpium noun (small bag)
- sacculus noun (small bag)
Macedonian
4 entries- то́рба noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- то́рбичка noun (small bag)
- ќе́се noun (small bag)
- џеб noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Nivkh
1 entries- ӿонтӄ noun (small bag)
Norwegian
2 entries- pung noun (small bag)
- pung noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Occitan
1 entries- saquet noun (small bag)
Old English
1 entries- ceod noun (small bag)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چانطه noun (small bag)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Biedel noun (small bag)
Polish
3 entries- sakiewka noun (small bag)
- sakwa noun (small bag)
- saszetka noun (small bag)
Portuguese
3 entries- bolsa noun (small bag)
- bolsa noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- malote noun (small bag)
Romanian
4 entries- marsupiu noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- punguță noun (small bag)
- săculeț noun (small bag)
- trăistuță noun (small bag)
Russian
4 entries- мешо́к noun (small bag)
- мешо́чек noun (small bag)
- су́мка noun (small bag)
- су́мка noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sporan noun (small bag)
Sinhalese
1 entries- මඩිස්සලය noun (small bag)
Spanish
4 entries- bolsa noun (small bag)
- bolsa marsupial noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- bolsita noun (small bag)
- cartapacio noun (small bag)
Swedish
1 entries- pung noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Tagalog
2 entries- lukbot noun (small bag)
- lukbot noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Tamil
2 entries- பை noun (small bag)
- பை noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
Turkish
2 entries- kese noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- poşet noun (small bag)
Ukrainian
3 entries- міше́чок noun (small bag)
- су́мка noun (pocket in which a marsupial carries its young)
- торби́нка noun (small bag)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The joey snuggled down into the warm kangaroo pouch of his mother.
Source: tatoeba (4587277)
I have a pouch full of clear quartz crystals.
Source: tatoeba (7060732)
She and her boyfriend found his mother's diaphragm in a little pouch in the bedside table.
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Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.
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