pocket gopher

Questions about pocket gopher

What does pocket gopher mean?

pocket gopher means "burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America".

What is another word for pocket gopher?

Close synonyms include gopher, pouched rat. 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 pocket gopher a common word?

pocket gopher 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.