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gopher tortoises

gopher tortoises is the plural of gopher tortoise.

Meaning of gopher tortoise

Noun

gopher tortoise (plural gopher tortoises)

  1. Any of the species of the taxonomic genus Gopherus, which are burrowing tortoises of southern North America.

Questions about gopher tortoises

What is gopher tortoises the plural of?
Gopher tortoises is the plural of gopher tortoise.

Words near gopher tortoises in the dictionary

  1. gopher spurge
  2. gopher spurges
  3. Gopher State
  4. Gopher Stater
  5. gopher tortoise
  6. gopher tortoises
  7. gopher wood
  8. gopherlike
  9. gophers
  10. gopherspace
  11. gopherwood

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