Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America.
1A most unusual miner and underground dweller is the pocket gopher of North and Central America.
2The pocket gopher is an herbivorous animal which attains approximately the size of a gray squirrel.
3I have purposely allowed a pocket gopher to bite me, to determine what the effects are.
4I am still of the opinion, however, that to meat-eating people, the pocket gopher would taste as good as squirrel or pigeon.
5These burrows bore a close likeness to those of our pocket gophers.
6In looks it closely resembled our pocket gophers, but it had no pockets.
7Sending for a pamphlet from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, I studied the material given about pocket gophers and their habits.
Translations for pocket gopher