gopher
1any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
Gopher, a native or inhabitant of Minnesota (used as a nickname).
Gopher, Computers.
a protocol for a menu-based system of accessing documents on the internet.
any program that implements this protocol.
Mining.
to mine unsystematically.
to enlarge a hole, as in loose soil, with successively larger blasts.
Origin of gopher
1How to use gopher in a sentence
A thirteen year old boy, living on rats and gophers and half-rotten canned food.
Second Variety | Philip Kindred DickThe rodents which are most destructive to tree seeds are the ground squirrels, the chipmunks, the mice, and the gophers.
Our National Forests | Richard H. Douai BoerkerIf gophers could kill dogs it would rather have gophers; when microbes kill us it will rather have microbes than people.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonDogs killed gophers if they caught them, and human beings killed chickens for Sunday dinners.
The Wrong Twin | Harry Leon WilsonThus, it was possible when comparing different kinds of pocket gophers to use only one age class of one season of one sex.
Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11] | Bernardo Villa-R
British Dictionary definitions for gopher
/ (ˈɡəʊfə) /
Also called: pocket gopher any burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, of North and Central America, having a thickset body, short legs, and cheek pouches
another name for ground squirrel
any burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, of SE North America
gopher snake another name for bull snake
Origin of gopher
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