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striped gopher
noun
- a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of striped gopher1
An Americanism dating back to 1940–45
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Example Sentences
The animals known as the "grey-gopher" and the "striped-gopher" are no gophers at all, but species of ground squirrels.
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