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pocket gopher

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pocket gopher
n.
See gopher.
pocket gopher
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the full name for gopher [1]
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Noun1.pocket gopher - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouchespocket gopher - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
pouched rat, gopher
pocket rat - any of various rodents with cheek pouches
family Geomyidae, Geomyidae - North American pocket gophers
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
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The pocket gophers I refer to are not the large ground squirrels (we have a few of them, too), but rather a little brown rodent that resembles an overgrown mouse with a squared off nose.
Pocket gophers are driving him batty by Countryside & Small Stock Journal
At least 40 specimens are required for regression calculations (Pagels & Blem, 1984), but a smaller sample size can provide a reliable estimate of the body mass of northern pocket gophers Thomomys talpoides (Stewart & Barss, 1985).
Prediction of the body mass of the bank vole Myodes glareolus from ... by Balciauskiene, Laima; Balciauskas, Linas / Estonian Journal of Ecology
Jack's always trying to catch pocket gophers and occasionally he does.
FIRE OFFICIAL'S DOGS ; BACK HOME SAFE by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
 
 
 
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