GOPHER • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Gopher

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/gˈoʊfər/ Listen

noun

Gopher n. (Zool.)

One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. Note: The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the earth.

One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.

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

See images of 'Gopher'

Etymology of 'Gopher'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Gopher" Quotes from Famous Books

... business, Tommy," said Banneker placidly. "Our friend the Joss will stick his foot into a gopher hole yet." ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... Geographic variation in the pocket gopher, Cratogeomys castanops, in Coahuila, Mexico. By Robert J. Russell and Rollin H. Baker. ...

— Birds from Coahuila, Mexico • Emil K. Urban

... to sea with him for use in his leisure moments, placed this chair on deck just outside the starboard entrance to the engine room, loaded his pipe, laid his trusty monkey wrench across his knee and gave himself up to the contemplation of this riot we call life. He resembled a cat watching beside a gopher hole. By half-past three o'clock he had finished figuring out approximately the amount of money Mrs. Reardon would have in the Hibernia Bank at the end of five years—figuring on a monthly saving of fifty dollars and interest compounded at the rate of four per cent. So, having ...

— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne

... our sole indulgence on the prairie. It might not, however, have suited fastidious palates, because the little squirrel-like gophers which abounded everywhere, burrowing near by, fell into the well by scores, and we had no leisure to fish them out. Neither is there any mistaking the flavor of gopher extract. Meantime it grew hotter and drier, and I had to admit to myself that the crop might have been better, while Harry, to hide his misgivings, talked cheerfully about higher prices, until ...

— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

... The ground was under his feet, his arm was not disturbed by the rock of a galloping horse. He lifted his weapon and fired. Craddock's horse went down to its knees as if it had struck a gopher hole, and Craddock, horseman that he was, pitched out of the saddle and fell not two yards from ...

— Trail's End • George W. Ogden

More quotes...