pocket gopher


noun
  1. 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
1870–75, Amer.

Words Nearby pocket gopher

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How to use pocket gopher in a sentence

  • I am still of the opinion, however, that to meat-eating people, the pocket gopher would taste as good as squirrel or pigeon.

British Dictionary definitions for pocket gopher

pocket gopher

noun
  1. the full name for gopher (def. 1)

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