gopher

English Thesaurus

1. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	tortoise,
definition	:	usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus gopherus, gopherus,
definition	:	gopher tortoises (noun.animal)

2. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	pocket rat,
definition	:	any of various rodents with cheek pouches (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	geomys bursarius, plains pocket gopher,
definition	:	gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	geomys pinetis, southeastern pocket gopher,
definition	:	gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	thomomys bottae, valley pocket gopher,
definition	:	of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	northern pocket gopher, thomomys talpoides,
definition	:	greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family geomyidae, geomyidae,
definition	:	North American pocket gophers (noun.animal)

3. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	squirrel,
definition	:	a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	antelope chipmunk, antelope squirrel, citellus leucurus, whitetail antelope squirrel,
definition	:	small ground squirrel of western United States (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	citellus lateralis, mantled ground squirrel,
definition	:	common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	citellus citellus, souslik, suslik,
definition	:	rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	citellus richardsoni, flickertail, richardson ground squirrel,
definition	:	of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	citellus variegatus, rock squirrel,
definition	:	large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	arctic ground squirrel, citellus parryi, parka squirrel,
definition	:	large ground squirrel of the North American far north (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	citellus, genus citellus, genus spermophilus, spermophilus,
definition	:	typical ground squirrels (noun.animal)

4. a native or resident of Minnesota (noun.person)

hypernym	:	american,
definition	:	a native or inhabitant of the United States (noun.person)

5. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) (noun.person)

hypernym	:	busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie, sharpy,
definition	:	an alert and energetic person (noun.person)