Spermophile

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spermophile
       n : any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New
           Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: {ground squirrel}, {gopher}]