gopher
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- noun
- /ˈɡoʊfər/
- US
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topo de bolsillo
- We watched as the gopher dug tunnels through the soft soil of the meadow.
- pocket gophers
Examples
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Yes, they're even reflected in the shining face of my youngest son, Ulysses McCauley... who is so intently watching the gopher, as he pushes up the dirt in my backyard.
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Dig a hole and hide like a gopher?
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We ran across a whole gopher village.
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It's probably just a gopher in heat.
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I looked like a frightened gopher.
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She got her foot stuck in a gopher hole.
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Occupant has a gopher problem.
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Do you have problems with deer, squirrels, or gophers attacking your garden?
Blog text (3) -
Gophers are plentiful that rainy spring, and a hawk is having a feast.
Fiction book (1993) -
I have been out digging up the irrigation line that the gophers have riddled with holes.
Blog text (26)
Synonyms
A small animal that lives in tunnels and carries food in cheek pouches
A group of burrowing rodents called pocket gophers that live in North America
A group of North American pocket gophers
A small mammal that digs burrows and lives in the grasslands of central North America
A small animal that lives underground in grasslands and carries food in pockets in its cheeks
A small burrowing rodent found in the southeastern United States
A small animal that lives underground and digs tunnels in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
A small burrowing animal like a mouse that has fur-lined cheek pouches and makes dirt mounds
A small burrowing rodent that lives in western United States valleys and meadows with fur-lined cheek pouches
A small animal like a gopher that lives underground in North America
A small gopher that lives underground in valleys and mountain meadows of the western United States
Compounds
- US
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7.0
A large North American snake that is not venomous and lives in burrows eating rodents
A small burrowing animal like a mouse that has fur-lined cheek pouches and makes dirt mounds
A small animal that lives underground in grasslands and carries food in pockets in its cheeks
A small animal that lives underground and digs tunnels in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida
A small burrowing rodent that lives in western United States valleys and meadows with fur-lined cheek pouches
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gopher for the burrowing rodent may come from an old Native American or French word for a digging animal. Because that root idea is 'digger', the name fits the small animal that makes tunnels and stores food, which is why gopher means this underground rodent.