pocket gopher
noun
1.
any of numerous burrowing rodents of the family Geomyidae, of western and southern North America and Central America, having large, external, fur-lined cheek pouches.
Also called
gopher
,
pocket rat,
pouched rat
.
Origin
1870-75,
Amer.
British Dictionary definitions for
pocket gopher
pocket gopher
noun
1.
the full name for
gopher
(sense 1)