Groundhog vs. Gopher

Groundhognoun

A red-brown marmot, Marmota monax, native to North America.

Groundhognoun

(rare) The aardvark.

Groundhognoun

A reddish brown North American burrowing marmot (Marmota monax), also called the woodchuck. It hibernates in the winter.

Groundhognoun

reddish brown North American marmot

Groundhognoun

another term for woodchuck

Groundhog

The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. The groundhog is a lowland creature of North America; it is found through much of the eastern United States, across Canada and into Alaska.

Gophernoun

A small burrowing rodent, especially in the family Geomyidae.

Gophernoun

The gopher tortoise.

Gophernoun

The gopher rockfish.

Gophernoun

One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; - called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

Gophernoun

One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridæ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); - called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

Gophernoun

A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

Gophernoun

A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.

Gophernoun

a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

Gophernoun

any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops

Gophernoun

burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

Gophernoun

burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

Gopher

Pocket gophers, commonly referred to simply as gophers, are burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae. The roughly 35 species are all endemic to North and Central America.