Assertion: ground squirrel | /r/Synonym | gopher
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: colloquially
type: MANNER
value: erroneously
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Richardson's ground squirrels, commonly but erroneously called gophers, have become popular pets in places outside their geographic range.
text: Richardson's ground squirrels (Urocitellus richardsonii, formerly Spermophilus richardsonii), colloquially known as gophers, are medium-sized rodents; they are larger than mice and voles, smaller than muskrats and beavers, and approximately the size of lab rats.
text: These are the "true" gophers, but several ground squirrels in the distantly related family Sciuridae are often called "gophers", as well.