pocket gopher

American  

noun

1. any of numerous burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, of western and southern North America and Central America, having large, external, fur-lined cheek pouches.

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pocket gopher British  

noun

1. the full name for gopher

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Etymology

Origin of pocket gopher

1870–75, Amer.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

The pocket gopher does his migrating and prospecting at night, when his enemies are asleep.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple