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