Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gopher

5 senses of gopher

Sense 1
goffer, gopher -- (a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman))
       => eager beaver, busy bee, live wire, sharpie, sharpy -- (an alert and energetic person)

Sense 2
Minnesotan, Gopher -- (a native or resident of Minnesota)
       => American -- (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

Sense 3
ground squirrel, gopher, spermophile -- (any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops)
       => squirrel -- (a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail)

Sense 4
gopher, pocket gopher, pouched rat -- (burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America)
       => pocket rat -- (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)

Sense 5
gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopher, Gopherus polypemus -- (burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America)
       => tortoise -- (usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica)