Gopher turtle and Tortoise

Gopher turtle

Gopher turtle noun - Burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America.
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Tortoise and gopher turtle are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tortoise" instead a noun phrase "Gopher turtle".

Tortoise

Tortoise noun - Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica.
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Gopher turtle and tortoise are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Gopher turtle" with "Tortoise", this terms are similar.
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