Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pocket gopher

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables: pock-et -go-pher
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America.

Example Sentences

"The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980)."
"Produced by pocket gophers, which push soil upward as they burrow along under the surface, soil tubes are most apparent where the soil is rocky."
"Four species of pocket gophers are currently found within the Great Basin, all of which belong to the genus Thomomys."

Inflected Forms

pocket gophers (plural)

Phrases

camas pocket gopher eastern pocket gopher giant pocket gopher smooth-toothed pocket gopher western pocket gopher

Synonyms

geomyid gopher pouched rat

Questions

What does pocket gopher mean?: Any of the burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, regarded as the "true" gophers, native North and Central America.

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