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striped gopher

American  

noun

  1. a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.

Etymology

Origin of striped gopher

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

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The former genus includes the Eastern striped squirrel or chipmunk and some allied Western species; the latter includes the prairie squirrel or striped gopher, the gray gopher, and many allied Western species.

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