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POCKET GOPHER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does pocket gopher mean?

• POCKET GOPHER (noun)
The noun POCKET GOPHER has 1 sense:

1. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

Familiarity information: POCKET GOPHER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• POCKET GOPHER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

pocket gopher; pouched rat; gopher

Hypernyms ("pocket gopher" is a kind of...):

pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pocket gopher"):

Geomys bursarius; plains pocket gopher (gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America)

Geomys pinetis; southeastern pocket gopher (gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida)

Thomomys bottae; valley pocket gopher (of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States)

northern pocket gopher; Thomomys talpoides (greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States)

Holonyms ("pocket gopher" is a member of...):

family Geomyidae; Geomyidae (North American pocket gophers)

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