gopher vs northern pocket gopher

northern pocket gopher vs gopher

gopher and northern pocket gopher both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gopher	Yes	No	No	No
northern pocket gopher	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, northern pocket gopher is a hyponym of gopher; that is, northern pocket gopher is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gopher:

gopher: burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
northern pocket gopher: greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States

Other hyponyms of gopher include Geomys bursarius, plains pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis, southeastern pocket gopher, Thomomys bottae, valley pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides.

gopher (noun)	northern pocket gopher (noun)
burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America	greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States
burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

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