gopher tortoise

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   burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

   Synonymsgopher turtlegopherGopherus polypemus

   Broadertortoise

   Part ofGopherus

Questions about gopher tortoise

What does gopher tortoise mean?

gopher tortoise means "burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America".

What is another word for gopher tortoise?

Close synonyms include gopher turtle, gopher, Gopherus polypemus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gopher tortoise a common word?

gopher tortoise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.