Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gopher_turtle
1 sense of gopher turtle
Sense 1
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)