Assertion: gopher | /r/CapableOf | feed on root
Facets:
value: chiefly
type: DEGREE
value: from vegetation
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: They live and do most of their foraging underground, feeding chiefly on roots and tubers.
text: Pocket gophers feed on roots they encounter from digging, from vegetation they pull into the tunnel from above, and vegetation above ground near the tunnel.
text: Gophers are omnivores and love to eat fruit, vegetables, roots and seeds.
text: This gopher stays underground most of its life, consuming roots, tubers, bulbs, and other subsurface plant parts.
text: A pocket gopher only eats herbivorous fare, including roots, bulbs, rhizome grasses, shrubs, the fleshy portions of plants, leaves, and plant stems.
text: Since gophers feed on certain plants and plant structures like tubers, roots, and other vegetation, it’s often times enough to simply exclude the gophers from a particular area—like your garden, for instance.
text: Gophers feed on roots, stems, and leaves.
text: Gophers are vegetarian, feeding only on plants, roots, trees and grass.
text: They live and do most of their foraging underground, feeding chiefly on roots and tubers.
text: Pocket gophers feed primarily on roots and tubers, although they sometimes eat other parts of plants as well.
text: It feeds on roots and rhizomes below ground, and on green plants such as grasses, sedges and weeds which it can reach from near the entrance to the burrow.
text: In alfalfa, large taprooted plants may be killed or the vigor of the plant greatly reduced by pocket gophers feeding on the roots.
text: They spend most of their lives in their underground tunnels and nests, eating roots and plant leaves.