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pocket gophers

pocket gophers is the plural of pocket gopher.

Meaning of pocket gopher

Noun

pocket gopher (plural pocket gophers)

  1. Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America.
    • The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).1998, B. J. Verts, Leslie N. Carraway, Land Mammals of Oregon, page 223
    Synonyms:
    geomyid

Questions about pocket gophers

What is pocket gophers the plural of?
Pocket gophers is the plural of pocket gopher.

Words near pocket gophers in the dictionary

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  10. pocket knife
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