| NOUN | animal | pouched rat, gopher, pocket gopher | burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches |
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| Meaning | burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America. | |
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| Synonyms | gopher, pocket gopher | |
| Member of | Geomyidae, family Geomyidae | North American pocket gophers |
| Narrower | northern pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides | greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States |
| plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius | gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America | |
| southeastern pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis | gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida | |
| valley pocket gopher, Thomomys bottae | Of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States | |
| Broader | pocket rat | Any of various rodents with cheek pouches |
| Spanish | ardilla terrera | |
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