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gopher tortoise

noun

gopher tortoise

noun

Etymology By surface analysis, gopher (“burrowing rodent”, compare translingual Gopherus) + tortoise.

1

Any of the species of the taxonomic genus Gopherus, which are burrowing tortoises of southern North America.

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Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.