The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spermophile \Sper"mo*phile\, n. [Gr. spe`rma a seed + fi`los
   loving, fond.] (Zool.)
   Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; a gopher.
   See Illust. under Gopher.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spermophile
    n 1: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New
         Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: ground squirrel,
         gopher, spermophile]