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Meanings of gopher tortoise in English

Burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America.

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Examples for "gopher"
Examples for "gopher"
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He sees a future for gopher in applications such as data exchange.
Wired
2
I wonder if even Folke Bernadotte knew who his gopher really was.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
3
He engaged in leisurely games of pool with stone-getters and gopher men.
Never-Fail Blake
4
He claims his horse stepped in a gopher hole and threw him.
Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life
5
They rolled right through you like a rototiller through a gopher mound.
All You Need Is Kill
1
That, May 11, 1894, at Vicksburg, Miss., fell a small piece of alabaster; that, at Bovina, eight miles from Vicksburg, fell a gopher turtle.
The Book of the Damned
Usage of gopher tortoise in English
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The Gopher Tortoise is found from South Carolina to Florida, and west as far as Texas.
Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot