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
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
To my knowledge, no one other than Goldman has critically studied specimens of this pocket gopher, nor have specimens other than those listed in the original description been reported up to now.
From The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Alvarez, Ticul
The prairie hens began to seek seclusion in the swales, and the pocket gopher, busily mining the sod, threw up his purple-brown mounds of cool fresh earth.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
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