Definition of gophers Gophers
/gowˈfɚz/ - [gowferz] -
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What does gophers mean?
Wiktionary 
- gophers (Noun)
Plural of gopher.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| gopher - burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America | ||
| pocket gopher, pouched rat | ||
| pocket rat any of various rodents with cheek pouches | ||
| family geomyidae, geomyidae North American pocket gophers | ||
| 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 | ||
| gopher - any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | ||
| ground squirrel, spermophile | ||
| squirrel a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail | ||
| citellus, genus citellus, genus spermophilus, spermophilus typical ground squirrels | ||
| antelope chipmunk, antelope squirrel, citellus leucurus, whitetail antelope squirrel small ground squirrel of western United States | ||
| citellus lateralis, mantled ground squirrel common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk | ||
| citellus citellus, souslik, suslik rather large central Eurasian ground squirrel | ||
| citellus richardsoni, flickertail, richardson ground squirrel of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | ||
| citellus variegatus, rock squirrel large grey ground squirrel of rocky areas of the southwestern United States | ||
| gopher - burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America | ||
| gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus | ||
| tortoise usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica | ||
| gopher - a native or resident of Minnesota | ||
| Minnesotan, Gopher | ||
| gopher - a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman) | ||
| goffer | ||
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Wiktionary
- gopher (Noun)
A small burrowing rodent, especially in the family Geomyidae. - gopher (Noun)
The gopher tortoise . - gopher (Noun)
Alternative spelling of gofer.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- gopher (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. - gopher (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. - gopher (n.)
A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows. - gopher (n.)
A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gopher
gō′fėr, n. a name in America applied to the prairie dog, the pouched rat, and to the land tortoise of the southern states.—v.i. to burrow, to mine in a small way. [Fr. gaufre.] -
gopher
gō′fėr, n. (B.) a kind of wood, generally supposed identical with cypress. [Heb.]
Wikipedia 
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Gophers are small, burrowing rodents. There are over 100 kinds of gophers in America. Gophers have long front teeth, tiny features, and short tails. They live in very complex tunnels underground. They live by themselves and feed on roots and shrubs. They are known to be pests and ruin people's lawns and gardens.
More notable are the Pocket gopher (which is a true gopher). Some gophers are really ground squirrels or marmots. -
protocol
Gopher is a protocol. It is used to index and search for documents on the Internet. It was designed to be used as a form of anonymous FTP. It is what came before the World Wide Web.
The gopher protocol has some things HTTP-based clients do not have. It is based on menus. An item selected from a menu will either open another menu, or a document.
Because of licensing fees, and because the World-Wide Web was easier to use, the protocol did not fly. There are less than 100 gopher servers left. Most of them are run by universities. Most of them are rarely updated except for the ones run by enthusiasts of the protocol. A handful of new servers are set up every year by hobbyists - 25 have been set up and added to Floodgap's list since 1999 and possibly some more that haven't been added. Today Gopher exists as an almost forgotten corner of the internet - one can publish email addresses in plaintext without having to worry about spam, and publish large amounts of data without the risk of the server's bandwidth becoming saturated, while at the same time people do still browse the gopher servers regularly.
Some have suggested that the simple interface of Gopher would be a good match for mobile phones and Personal digital assistants (PDAs), but so far, the Web-fixated market prefers Wireless Markup Language (WML)/Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), DoCoMo i-mode, XHTML Basic or other adaptations of HTML and XML. The PyGopherd server, however, provides a built-in WML front-end to Gopher
