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Noun: desert tortoise
  1. Burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico; may be reclassified as a member of genus Xerobates
    - Gopherus agassizii

Derived forms: desert tortoises

Type of: tortoise

Part of: genus Gopherus, Gopherus

Encyclopedia: Desert tortoise

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