Gopher

n. small burrowing rodent (native to the North American prairies)

Gopher is:Gopher (animal), including: True gopher, i.e. pocket gopher or member of Geomyidae, native to North AmericaRichardson's Ground Squirrel, a species of SpermophilusGround squirrel, in a loose general sense, SciuridaeThe Gopher tortoise, Gopher Tortoise/Gopherus polyphemusMedia charactersGopher, a character in the Disney version of Winnie the Pooh.Character played in Wonderland by Michael PittThe Gopher, character in Disney's The Lion KingGophers!, a 1990 UK puppet sit-com starring the voice of Lou HirschGordon the Gopher, a puppet gopher appearing on children's TV in the UK.The ship's purser on The Love BoatA character in the movie, CaddyshackGoldy Gopher the mascot of the University of Minnesota
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Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. Its goal is to function as an improved form of Anonymous FTP, with features similar to that of the World Wide Web.The Gopher protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its text menu interface is well-suited to computing environments that rely heavily on remote computer terminals, common in universities at the time of its creation.
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Gopher+ is a forward compatible enhancement to the RFC 1436 Gopher protocol. Gopher+ works by sending extra data between the client and the server.
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Noun
1. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
(synonym) goffer
(hypernym) eager beaver, busy bee, live wire, sharpie, sharpy
2. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
(synonym) ground squirrel, spermophile
(hypernym) squirrel
(hyponym) antelope squirrel, whitetail antelope squirrel, antelope chipmunk, Citellus leucurus
(member-holonym) Citellus, genus Citellus, Spermophilus, genus Spermophilus
3. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
(synonym) pocket gopher, pouched rat
(hypernym) pocket rat
(hyponym) plains pocket gopher, Geomys bursarius
(member-holonym) Geomyidae, family Geomyidae
4. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
(synonym) gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, Gopherus polypemus
(hypernym) tortoise
(member-holonym) Gopherus, genus Gopherus

n. gopherspace, network of textual information on the Internet (Computers)

n. Gopher system, network of textual information on the Internet