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POCKET GOPHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
Synonyms:
gopher; pocket gopher; pouched rat
Classified under:
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)
