pocket gopher

plural pocket gophers

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

   Four species of pocket gophers are currently found within the Great Basin, all of which belong to the genus Thomomys.

   2011, Donald K. Grayson, The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory, page 196

   2 more examples

   The pocket gophers are New World endemics for which the fossil history commences in the late Miocene (Kurtén and Anderson, 1980).

   1998, B. J. Verts, Leslie N. Carraway, Land Mammals of Oregon, page 223

   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.

   2005, Ernest H. Williams Jr., The Nature Handbook : A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, page 158

   Synonyms: geomyid