spermophile

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
spermophile
    n 1: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New
         Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: {ground squirrel},
         {gopher}, {spermophile}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Spermophile \Sper"mo*phile\, n. [Gr. spe`rma a seed + fi`los
   loving, fond.] (Zool.)
   Any ground squirrel of the genus {Spermophilus}; a gopher.
   See Illust. under {Gopher}.
   [1913 Webster]
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