spermophile

Noun
Synonyms: ground squirrelgopher

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy cropsSynonyms: ground squirrelgopher
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]
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