gopher

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: gopher

1	n	any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
2	n	a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: gopher

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; Citellus leucurus, antelope chipmunk, antelope squirrel, whitetail antelope squirrel
small ground squirrel of western United States; Citellus lateralis, mantled ground squirrel
common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk; Citellus citellus, souslik, suslik
rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel; Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel, flickertail
of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada; Citellus variegatus, rock squirrel
large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States; Arctic ground squirrel, Citellus parryi, parka squirrel
large ground squirrel of the North American far north

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; Geomys bursarius, plains pocket gopher
gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America; Geomys pinetis, southeastern pocket gopher
gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida; Thomomys bottae, valley pocket gopher
of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States; Thomomys talpoides, northern pocket gopher
greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States

Type of:: tortoise
usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica

Type of:: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie, sharpy
an alert and energetic person

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