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Meanings of gopher turtle in English

Burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America.

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        Examples for "gopher"
        Examples for "gopher"
        1
        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
        The Gopher Tortoise is found from South Carolina to Florida, and west as far as Texas.
        Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot
        Usage of gopher turtle in English
        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