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cheek pouch

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

How To Use cheek pouch In A Sentence

  • They have large cheek pouches on either side of the head in which they store food. Animals of the World
  • They have large cheek pouches on either side of the head in which they store food. Animals of the World
  • The Ornithischia - unlike saurischian dinosaurs, reptiles and birds - possessed mammal-like cheek muscles and cheek pouches to aid in chewing.
  • He caught chipmunks whose cheek pouches were so stuffed with lodgepole pine seeds that not one more would fit.
  • He caught chipmunks whose cheek pouches were so stuffed with lodgepole pine seeds that not one more would fit.
  • In chipmunks, with internal cheek pouches, losses can amount to 60% of the preformed and metabolic water available from the seeds harvested.
  • Rhesus monkeys collect food and hoard it in specialized cheek pouches, saving morsels for later.
  • He caught chipmunks whose cheek pouches were so stuffed with lodgepole pine seeds that not one more would fit.
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