walrus(n = noun.animal) sea horse, seahorse - either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber;
is a kind of pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal
is a member of genus odobenus, odobenus
has particulars: atlantic walrus, odobenus rosmarus, odobenus divergens, pacific walrus
A very large marine mammal (
" The walrus of the North Pacific and Behring Strait (
walrus, n. a large amphibious long-tusked arctic mammal, Odobenus rosmarus, related to the seal and sea lion.
Idiom:
walrus moustache a long thick drooping moustache.
Etymology:
prob. f. Du. walrus, -ros, perh. by metath. after walvisch 'whale-fish' f. word repr. by OE horschw{aelig}l 'horse-whale'
atlantic walrus, pacific walrus, walrus moustache, walrus mustache