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striped gopher
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noun
a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
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Origin of striped gopher
An Americanism dating back to 1940–45
Words nearby striped gopher
strip club, strip cropping, stripe, striped, striped bass, striped gopher, striped hyena, striped killifish, striped maple, striped marlin, striped muscle
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How to use striped gopher in a sentence
The animals known as the "grey-gopher" and the "striped-gopher" are no gophers at all, but species of ground squirrels.
Science of Trapping|Elmer Harry Kreps