gopher turtle

1. 1.

   burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

   Synonymsgopher tortoisegopherGopherus polypemus

   Broadertortoise

   Part ofGopherus

Questions about gopher turtle

What does gopher turtle mean?

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

What is another word for gopher turtle?

Close synonyms include gopher tortoise, 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 turtle a common word?

gopher turtle 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.