Gopher

1. n. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. n. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.