GOPHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gopher mean? 

• GOPHER (noun)
  The noun GOPHER has 5 senses:

1. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

2. a native or resident of Minnesota

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

4. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

5. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

  Familiarity information: GOPHER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOPHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

goffer; gopher

Hypernyms ("gopher" is a kind of...):

busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy (an alert and energetic person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or resident of Minnesota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gopher; Minnesotan

Hypernyms ("Gopher" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gopher; ground squirrel; spermophile

Hypernyms ("gopher" is a kind of...):

squirrel (a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gopher"):

antelope chipmunk; antelope squirrel; Citellus leucurus; whitetail antelope squirrel (small ground squirrel of western United States)

Citellus lateralis; mantled ground squirrel (common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk)

Citellus citellus; souslik; suslik (rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel)

Citellus richardsoni; flickertail; Richardson ground squirrel (of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada)

Citellus variegatus; rock squirrel (large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States)

Arctic ground squirrel; Citellus parryi; parka squirrel (large ground squirrel of the North American far north)

Holonyms ("gopher" is a member of...):

Citellus; genus Citellus; genus Spermophilus; Spermophilus (typical ground squirrels)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gopher; pocket gopher; pouched rat

Hypernyms ("gopher" is a kind of...):

pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gopher"):

Geomys bursarius; plains pocket gopher (gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America)

Geomys pinetis; southeastern pocket gopher (gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida)

Thomomys bottae; valley pocket gopher (of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States)

northern pocket gopher; Thomomys talpoides (greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States)

Holonyms ("gopher" is a member of...):

family Geomyidae; Geomyidae (North American pocket gophers)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gopher; gopher tortoise; gopher turtle; Gopherus polypemus

Hypernyms ("gopher" is a kind of...):

tortoise (usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica)

Holonyms ("gopher" is a member of...):

genus Gopherus; Gopherus (gopher tortoises)