pocket gopher
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.
Origin of pocket gopher
1- Also called gopher, pocket rat, pouched rat .
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How to use pocket gopher in a sentence
The pocket was reached by a tunnel that had been well begun and then abandoned by an industrious but timid pocket-gopher.
The Biography of a Prairie Girl | Eleanor GatesGeographic variation in the pocket gopher, Cratogeomys cantanops, in Coahuila, México.
Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico | Robert J. RussellMr. 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.
Growing Nuts in the North | Carl WeschckeI am still of the opinion, however, that to meat-eating people, the pocket gopher would taste as good as squirrel or pigeon.
Growing Nuts in the North | Carl Weschcke
British Dictionary definitions for pocket gopher
the full name for gopher (def. 1)
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