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gopher
a small burrowing rodent. Called pocket gopher because of its habit of storing food in a cheek pouch. Species are Thomomys talpoides (gray gopher) and Geomys spp. (pocket gopher).
gopher
Graduate education A denigrating term for a medical student who is treated as a scut monkey and told to get things for the department through which he or she is rotating at the time. See Rotater, Scut monkey.
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The pocket gophers I refer to are not the large ground squirrels (we have a few of them, too), but rather a little brown rodent that resembles an overgrown mouse with a squared off nose.
Pocket gophers are driving him batty by Countryside & Small Stock Journal
At least 40 specimens are required for regression calculations (Pagels & Blem, 1984), but a smaller sample size can provide a reliable estimate of the body mass of northern pocket gophers Thomomys talpoides (Stewart & Barss, 1985).
Prediction of the body mass of the bank vole Myodes glareolus from ... by Balciauskiene, Laima; Balciauskas, Linas / Estonian Journal of Ecology
Jack's always trying to catch pocket gophers and occasionally he does.
FIRE OFFICIAL'S DOGS ; BACK HOME SAFE by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
 
 
 
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