pocket gopher

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English

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Geomys bursarius (plains pocket gopher)
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Noun

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pocket gopher (plural pocket gophers)

  1. Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers.
    • 1998, B. J. Verts, Leslie N. Carraway, Land Mammals of Oregon, page 223:
      The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).
    • 2005, Ernest H. Williams Jr., The Nature Handbook : A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, page 158:
      Produced by pocket gophers, which push soil upward as they burrow along under the surface, soil tubes are most apparent where the soil is rocky.
    • 2011, Donald K. Grayson, The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory, page 196:
      Four species of pocket gophers are currently found within the Great Basin, all of which belong to the genus Thomomys.

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  • (any species of Geomyidae): geomyid

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