pouch-shaped
5.3
Shaped like a small bag that holds things
- adjective
:
en forma de bolsa
- The pouch-shaped backpack is perfect for carrying my essentials while hiking.
Examples
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The pouch-shaped container held all the toys neatly for easy access.
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She admired the pouch-shaped flowers that bloomed in her garden this spring.
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In early spring, these aphids form pouch-shaped galls on the hybrids' leaves; living and breeding within the galls, the insects feed on the trees' nutritious sap stream.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
pouchlike
vspouch-shaped
4.6
Having the shape of a small bag
is the hyphenated adjective form used the same way
saclike
vspouch-shaped
5.4
Shaped like a small bag
refers specifically to the small soft container form rather than a hollow container
sacklike
vspouch-shaped
4.8
Shaped like a loose bag that hangs from something
focuses on the small soft container shape rather than large flexible form
bag-shaped
vspouch-shaped
3.3
Having the shape of a bag
is more specific to the small soft container shape not just any carrying container
9.9
Shaped like a small pouch or sac
is the general, nontechnical description of that same small container shape
Antonyms
How Saclike
Surface Forms
pouch-shaped positive
Morphology
Etymology
Pouch-shaped is made from pouch ('small bag') and shaped ('in the form of'). Think of a kangaroo's pouch or a pocket — something 'like a small bag' — so pouch-shaped means 'having the shape of a pouch'.