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Noun gopher has 4 senses
- goffer, gopher - a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
--1 is a kind of eager beaver, busy bee, live wire, sharpie, sharpy
- ground squirrel, gopher, spermophile - any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
--2 is a kind of squirrel
--2 is a member of Citellus, genus Citellus, Spermophilus, genus Spermophilus
--2 has particulars: | | antelope squirrel, whitetail antelope squirrel, antelope chipmunk, Citellus leucurus; mantled ground squirrel, Citellus lateralis; suslik, souslik, Citellus citellus; flickertail, Richardson ground squirrel, Citellus richardsoni; rock squirrel, Citellus variegatus; Arctic ground squirrel, parka squirrel, Citellus parryi |
- gopher, pocket gopher, pouched rat - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
--3 is a kind of pocket rat
--3 is a member of Geomyidae, family Geomyidae
--3 has particulars:
- gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher, Gopherus polypemus - burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
--4 is a kind of tortoise
--4 is a member of Gopherus, genus Gopherus
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