English Explanatory Dictionary

gopher tortoise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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

Word forms

gopher tortoise gopher tortoises

Etymology

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

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