Pocket gopher

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America.

    "The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980)."

  2. 2
    burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America wordnet

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