| 单词 | pocket gopher |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspocket gopher pocket gopher n. (a) any of numerous burrowing rodents constituting the American family Geomyidae, having small ears and external cheek pouches; (b) U.S. regional a ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Geomyidae (gopher) sand rat1781 tuza1787 mungofa1789 salamander1805 gopher1814 pocket gopher1873 1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville iv. 37 She would..explain how the pocket-gophers built their mounds. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes iv. 59 The animals of the first sub-group are those that spend the anœstrus in solitude... Examples are the jaguar of Central America and the pocket gopher of the United States. 1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 221/2 They call them pocket gophers south of the [Illinois] River and ground squirrels north of the river. 1990 Atlantic Jan. 74/1 Here and there pocket gophers had pushed mounds of black tailings from their burrows onto the trail. < as lemmas |
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