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CHEEK POUCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cheek pouch mean? 

CHEEK POUCH (noun)
  The noun CHEEK POUCH has 1 sense:

1. a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher)play

  Familiarity information: CHEEK POUCH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHEEK POUCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cheek pouch" is a kind of...):

pocket; pouch ((anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican))


 Context examples 


Any member of four genera of the rodent family Cricetidae; short-tailed Old World burrowing rodents with large cheek pouches.

(Hamster, NCI Thesaurus)



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