Definition of Gophers

1. Noun. (plural of gopher) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gophers

1. gopher [n] - See also: gopher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gophers

goosts
goosy
gopak
gopaks
gopher ball
gopher hole
gopher snake
gopher tortoise
gopher turtle
gopher wood
gophered
gophering
gopherlike
gophers (current term)
gopherspace
gopherwood
gopik
gopping
gopura
gopuram
gopurams
gopuras
gor
gora
goracco
goral
gorals
goramies

Literary usage of Gophers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The California Spotted Owl: A Technical Assessment of Its Current Status. by Jared Verner (1994)
"Southwestern pocket gophers occur in the western Sierra Nevada at ... Distribution records of pocket gophers above 6.900 feet in the southern Sierra Nevada ..."

2. The Value of School Supervision, Demonstrated with the Zone Plan in Rural by Marvin Summers Pittman (1921)
"The gophers are very numerous in parts of the county, so numerous in fact, ... Practically all of the gophers of a village can be killed in one day at this ..."

3. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"These gophers are almost as completely subterranean as the mole, and their fore limbs, ... In these runways the gophers trot backward as readily as forward; ..."

4. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The gophers are nocturnal and live in communities, burrowing in the ground like the marmots. They are very abundant in our Western States and two species ..."

5. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The gophers are nocturnal and live in communities, burrowing in the ground like the marmots. They are very abundant in our Western States and two species ..."

6. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"POCKET gophers (Family Geomyidae) These curious little animals are ... The gophers are nocturnal and live in communities, burrowing in the ground like the ..."

7. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1901)
"The Mammal Collection of the US Biological Survey still contains a number of apparently nameless species of Pocket gophers of the genus ..."

8. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"gophers and jack-rabbits are now only pests of minor importance in thickly settled orchard-districts, but the warfare of the horticulturist ..."

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