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Definition of Gophers
1. gopher [n] - See also: gopher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gophers
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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