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
"That'll be easy, seeing I don't know," Johnny retorted, crowding the money into his old wallet that bulged like the cheeks of a pocket gopher, busy enlarging his house.
From The Thunder Bird by Bower, B. M.
Geographic variation in the pocket gopher, Cratogeomys cantanops, in Coahuila, México.
From Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico by Russell, Robert J.
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