gopher tortoise

gopher tortoise

noun
any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
Also called gopher turtle, gopher.


Origin:
1785–95; see gopher1
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Gopher tortoise is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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gopher tortoise

noun
burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America 
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