Usually means: Land-dwelling turtle, North American.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (desert tortoise)

noun:  (US) either of two species of tortoise native to the deserts of the southwest United States and northwestern Mexico, Gopherus agassizii and Gopherus morafkai

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