pocket gopher

noun

any of numerous burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, of western and southern North America and Central America, having large, external, fur-lined cheek pouches.

pocket gopher

1870–75, Amer.

The pocket was reached by a tunnel that had been well begun and then abandoned by an industrious but timid pocket-gopher.

Geographic variation in the pocket gopher, Cratogeomys cantanops, in Coahuila, México.

Mr. Andrews: Mr. Ludlow spoke of the pocket-gopher favoring alfalfa.

The pocket gopher is an herbivorous animal which attains approximately the size of a gray squirrel.

I am still of the opinion, however, that to meat-eating people, the pocket gopher would taste as good as squirrel or pigeon.

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