plains pocket gopher

Definitions of plains pocket gopher
  1. noun
    gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America
    synonyms: Geomys bursarius
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    type of:
    gopher, pocket gopher, pouched rat
    burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
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