walrus
IPA: wˈɔɫrʌs
noun
- A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
- (informal, sometimes derogatory) A man with a walrus moustache.
verb
- To hunt walruses
- To be like a walrus
- To move dragging one's belly along the floor
- To hang like a walrus's moustache
- To be prominent, like tusks
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Examples of "walrus" in Sentences
- I saw walrus and hippo at the zoo.
- The article Walrus explains the etymology.
- The walrus is a mammal in the order Carnivora.
- The fishing vessel Walrus rescued the survivor.
- The walrus is what the loon depends on for survival.
- The sealers went ashore and began the hunt for walrus.
- When seen close at hand the walrus is a very ugly monster.
- The walrus is what the Nunivak peoples depended on to survive.
- By the start of World War II the Walrus was in widespread use.
- The walrus is the only living species in the Odobenidae family.
- There is some variation on the exact style of the walrus moustache.
- A whale of a walrus is the new star attraction at Seaworld in San Diego.
- The young lady workin 'says that the walrus is the most socially inappropriate animal they have there.
- One of the chief characteristics of the walrus is the presence of two elongated tusks (the canine teeth) in the upper jaw.
- On the very day of sailing they caught their first glimpse of some large species of seal or walrus, which is thus described by the old narrator of the expedition: --
- The walrus, which is hunted by the Eskimo in kyak and from ice flow, is also sought after by the Hudson's Bay Company, and is hunted by the Company's employees in small vessels sailing out of Churchill.
- The great man of course frowned and pulled his "walrus" -- the kind that has hanging, hairy selvages on it, such as serve as warnings for "low bridge" on the railroads -- smote his desk firmly, and said it would never do!
- The jaw of the walrus is the least regular, and the incisors are generally wanting, especially in the full-grown animal; for it appears they lose them very young, as you lost your milk teeth, only, unluckily for the walrus, his never grow again.
- They include some of the country's rarest and least protected species, like the American wolverine, whose ranks have dwindled to fewer than 500 in the lower 48 states, and the Pacific walrus, which is rapidly losing the sea ice it needs to survive.
- A very hungry bear will sometimes attack a walrus in the water, for the polar bear is a powerful swimmer; but in his peculiar element -- and he is never far from it -- the walrus is the best fighter, and his tough hide serves as an almost impenetrable armor.