POUCHED RAT

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

gopher; pocket gopher; pouched rat

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pouched rat" is a kind of...):

pocket rat (any of various rodents with cheek pouches)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pouched rat"):

Geomys bursarius; plains pocket gopher (gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America)

Geomys pinetis; southeastern pocket gopher (gopher of Alabama and Georgia and Florida)

Thomomys bottae; valley pocket gopher (of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States)

northern pocket gopher; Thomomys talpoides (greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States)

Holonyms ("pouched rat" is a member of...):

family Geomyidae; Geomyidae (North American pocket gophers)