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Type Words
Synonyms ground squirrel, spermophile
Type of squirrel
Has types antelope squirrel, arctic ground squirrel, citellus citellus, citellus lateralis, citellus leucurus, citellus parryi, citellus richardsoni, antelope chipmunk, citellus variegatus, flickertail, mantled ground squirrel, parka squirrel, richardson ground squirrel, rock squirrel, souslik, suslik, whitetail antelope squirrel
Type Words
Synonyms gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopherus polypemus
Type of tortoise
Type Words
Synonyms minnesotan
Type of american
Type Words
Synonyms pocket gopher, pouched rat
Type of pocket rat
Has types geomys bursarius, geomys pinetis, northern pocket gopher, valley pocket gopher, plains pocket gopher, thomomys bottae, thomomys talpoides, southeastern pocket gopher
Type Words
Synonyms goffer
Type of sharpy, busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie

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The rest like garter and gopher snakes are benign and some are even used as pets.
From the ocregister.com
The community's borders include more than 30 acres of gopher tortoise preserve.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Just as Strickland got one of his own, going from NBA star to low-level gopher.
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Other times, say, if the gopher has a meth lab going, you'll hear it a mile away.
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Maybe it would have conducted gopher tortoise surveys and sent them to the state.
From the heraldtribune.com
I've been avoiding comment on the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta.
From the time.com
Angels'pitcher Ken McBride tees up the gopher ball in the 6th inning with one on.
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Although she looks like a rattlesnake, Crusher is a nonpoisonous gopher snake.
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King and gopher snakes should appear in wild areas, along with worrisome rattlers.
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  • Goffer: a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
  • Minnesotan: a native or resident of Minnesota
  • Ground squirrel: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
  • Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
  • Gopher tortoise: burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
  • Gopher+ is a forward compatible enhancement to the RFC [ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1436.txt 1436] Gopher protocol. Gopher+ works by sending extra data between the client and the server.
  • The term gopher as it is commonly used does not relate to any one species, but is a generic term used to describe any of several small burrowing rodents endemic to North America, including the pocket gopher (family Geomyidae), also called true gophers, and the ground squirrel (family Sciuridae) ...
  • The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Strongly oriented towards a menu-document design, the Gopher protocol was a predecessor of (and later, an alternative to) the World Wide Web.
  • The Gopher and Badger were trains operated by the Great Northern Railway between Saint Paul, Minnesota and the Twin Ports of Superior, Wisconsin and Duluth, Minnesota. The Great Northern introduced the services with two six-car streamlined trainsets on April 26, 1952. ...