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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_150409" /> == | |||
<p> (See [[ | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; - called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher [[(S.]] tridecemlineatus); - called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74252" /> == | |||
<p> '''Gopher.''' ''(pitch).'' [[Gopher]] wood. Only once mentioned - Genesis 6:14. Two principal conjectures have been proposed - </p> <p> 1. That the "trees of gopher" are any trees of the resinous kind, such as pine, fir, etc. </p> <p> 2. That Gopher is cypress. </p> | |||
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Latest revision as of 00:06, 13 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; - called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
(2): ( n.) A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.
(3): ( n.) A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
(4): ( n.) One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family Sciuridae; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); - called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Gopher. (pitch). Gopher wood. Only once mentioned - Genesis 6:14. Two principal conjectures have been proposed -
1. That the "trees of gopher" are any trees of the resinous kind, such as pine, fir, etc.
2. That Gopher is cypress.
