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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.
