Pocket Gopher

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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.

Also called gopher, pocket rat, pouched rat.

Origin:
1870–75, Amer.

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go·pher (gō'fər)

Any of various short-tailed, burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae of North America, having fur-lined external cheek pouches. Also called pocket gopher.
Any of various ground squirrels of the genus Citellus of North American prairies.
Any of several burrowing tortoises of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus of the southeast United States.

[Probably short for earlier megopher, gopher tortoise, of unknown origin.]

pocket gopher
n. See gopher.

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