striped gopher


noun

a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.

Origin of striped gopher

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Example sentences from the Web for striped gopher

  • The animals known as the "grey-gopher" and the "striped-gopher" are no gophers at all, but species of ground squirrels.

    Science of Trapping |Elmer Harry Kreps