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Meanings of spermophile in English

Portuguese
espermófilo
Catalan
esquirol de terra

Any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops.

        espermófilo
        Synonyms
        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
        Harry S. Welby, Taft, Calif.: The ground squirrel is a pest here.
        Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 194...
        2
        Purpose: To provide quantitative information on glucose utilization in cone-dominant ground squirrel retinas.
        Pubmed
        3
        Incidentally we brought the ground squirrel out and set him free.
        K
        4
        How do you tell a ground squirrel from a tree squirrel?
        Wired
        5
        Nurse, you said something about a ground squirrel, and called it a chitmunk.
        Lady Mary and Her Nurse; Or, A Peep into the Canadian Forest
        Usage of spermophile in English
        1
        These are the spermophiles, and some species of these have more capacious pouches than others.
        The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North
        2
        He is called Spermophile because that means seed-eater, and he lives largely on seeds, especially on grain.
        The Burgess Animal Book for Children
        3
        He is called the Thirteen-lined Spermophile.
        The Burgess Animal Book for Children
        4
        Seek Seek the Spermophile who lives on the plains of the West and is often called Gopher Squirrel, is the true Ground Squirrel.
        The Burgess Animal Book for Children
        5
        The larger spermophiles that live near the spring and keep awake to work all day, come and go at no particular hour, drinking sparingly.
        The Land of Little Rain
        Translations for spermophile
        Portuguese
        espermófilo