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    POCKET GOPHER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    gopher; pocket gopher; pouched rat

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("pocket gopher" is a kind of...):

    pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pocket gopher"):

    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)

    northern pocket gopher; Thomomys talpoides (greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States)

    Holonyms ("pocket gopher" is a member of...):

    family Geomyidae; Geomyidae (North American pocket gophers)

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