Gopher (disambiguation)
A gopher, also known as a "pocket gopher" (family Geomyidae), is a burrowing rodent native to North America and Central America.
Gopher may also refer to:
Nature
[edit]- Some species of ground squirrels (tribe Marmotini) of North America, particularly those formerly classified as Spermophilus, are informally referred to as "gophers"
- Gopher snake – common name of several species of genus Pituophis endemic to west or southwest of North America
- Gopher tortoise (genus Gopherus), distributed in North America
- Gopher wood, of unclear meaning, mentioned in the Bible as the building material for Noah's ark
- Gopher Plant or Paper Spurge (Euphorbia lathyris)
Entertainment
[edit]- Gophers!, a British children's television programme
- "Gopher", real name Burl Smith, a character on TV show The Love Boat
- Gopher (Winnie the Pooh), a character in Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise
- Gordon the Gopher, an English puppet gopher who first appeared on Children's BBC (CBBC) between 1985 and 1987
Technology
[edit]- The SA-13 "Gopher", or 9K35 Strela-10, a Soviet surface-to-air missile system
- Gopher (protocol), an early distributed hypertext protocol
- Go gopher, a mascot of Go programming language
- Slang term for a mobility scooter
Other
[edit]- Minnesota, the "Gopher State"
- Minnesota Golden Gophers, University of Minnesota sports teams
- Gopher (train), a passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway, USA
- Gopher (video game), an Atari 2600 game
- Gofer, also spelled "gopher", an errand-runner
- Gopher Gang, early 20th-century New York street gang
See also
[edit]- Gofer (disambiguation)
- Gaufre, French term for a flat cake similar to waffles
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