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pouched rat

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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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pouched rat

noun
burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America [syn: gopher] 
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