pocket gopher
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pocket gopher
1870–75, Amer.
Example Sentences
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When the Mazama pocket gopher, native to Thurston and Pierce Counties, was added to the endangered species list in late 2014, Thurston County builders and realtors sounded the alarm.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2019
It turned out to be a fancy name for rodent exterminator," says Frederick Lee Hisaw, now 64, "and one of the rodents I was to exterminate was the pocket gopher.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside the boundaries of the monument, where by law people are not allowed to assist regeneration, a mammalian equivalent of the bulldozer has been the pocket gopher.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another site was in the abandoned tunnel of a pocket gopher, and a third was under a large rock.
From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Douglas, Charles L.
A new race of pocket gopher of the species Geomys lutescens from Colorado.
From Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11] by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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