From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Spermophile \Sper"mo*phile\, n. [Gr. spe`rma a seed + fi`los
loving, fond.] (Zool.)
Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; a gopher.
See Illust. under Gopher.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
spermophile
n 1: any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New
Worlds; often destroy crops [syn: ground squirrel,
gopher, spermophile]