Gopher

名词 gopher:

1. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
   同义词：goffer
2. a native or resident of Minnesota
   同义词：Minnesotan
3. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
   同义词：ground squirrel, spermophile
4. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
   同义词：pocket gopher, pouched rat
5. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
   同义词：gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus

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n.（名词）
Any of various short-tailed, burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae of North America, having fur-lined external cheek pouches.Also called pocket gopher
囊鼠：一种北美衣囊鼠科的穴居啮齿类动物，短尾，有皮毛呈线型的外颊囊也作 pocket gopher
Any of various ground squirrels of the genusCitellus of North American prairies.
黄鼠：一种产于北美草原地区的地松鼠，属黄鼠属
Any of several burrowing tortoises of the genusGopherus, especially G. polyphemus of the southeast United States.
穴居沙龟：一种穴居龟 属的穴居龟，特指产于美国东南部的 穴居陆地龟类

来源：
Probably short for earlier megopher [gopher tortoise]
可能为较早期 megopher的变体 [穴居龟]
[of unknown origin]
[来源不明]