gopher turtle

Questions about gopher turtle

What is another word for gopher turtle?

It depends which gopher turtle you mean. In the sense “burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America”, the synonyms are gopher tortoise, gopher, Gopherus polypemus. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of gopher turtle?

WordNet records no antonym for gopher turtle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for gopher turtle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of gopher turtle

• Full entry for gopher turtleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for gopher turtleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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