gopher : Idioms & Phrases


Gopher drift

  • (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.
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gopher hole

  • noun a hole in the ground made by gophers
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gopher snake

  • noun large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico
    Drymarchon corais; indigo snake.
  • noun bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows
    Pituophis melanoleucus.
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gopher state

  • noun a midwestern state
    MN; Minnesota; North Star State.
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gopher tortoise

  • noun burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
    Gopherus polypemus; gopher tortoise; gopher.
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gopher turtle

  • noun burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
    Gopherus polypemus; gopher tortoise; gopher.
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gopher wood

Go"pher wood`
Etymology
Heb. g&omac;pher.
Definitions
  1. A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.
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northern pocket gopher

  • noun greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States
    Thomomys talpoides.
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plains pocket gopher

  • noun gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America
    Geomys bursarius.
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Pocket gopher

  • noun burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
    pouched rat; gopher.
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  • (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomydæ. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.
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Pouched gopher, ∨ Pouched rat

  • . (Zoöl.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket.
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southeastern pocket gopher

  • noun gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida
    Geomys pinetis.
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valley pocket gopher

  • noun of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States
    Thomomys bottae.
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