名詞 gopher:

1. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
   同義詞：goffer
2. a native or resident of Minnesota
   同義詞：Minnesotan
3. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
   同義詞：ground squirrel, spermophile
4. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
   同義詞：pocket gopher, pouched rat
5. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
   同義詞：gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus

go.pher

n.（名詞）
Any of various short-tailed, burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae of North America, having fur-lined external cheek pouches.Also called pocket gopher
囊鼠：一種北美衣囊鼠科的穴居嚙齒類動物，短尾，有皮毛呈線型的外頰囊也作 pocket gopher
Any of various ground squirrels of the genusCitellus of North American prairies.
黃鼠：一種產(chǎn)于北美草原地區(qū)的地松鼠，屬黃鼠屬
Any of several burrowing tortoises of the genusGopherus, especially G. polyphemus of the southeast United States.
穴居沙龜：一種穴居龜 屬的穴居龜，特指產(chǎn)于美國東南部的 穴居陸地龜類

來源：
Probably short for earlier megopher [gopher tortoise]
可能為較早期 megopher的變體 [穴居龜]
[of unknown origin]
[來源不明]