Definition of walrus in English:
walrus
noun ˈwɔːlrəsˈwɒlrəsˈwɔlrəs
A large gregarious marine mammal related to the eared seals, having two large downward-pointing tusks and found in the Arctic Ocean.
Odobenus rosmarus, the only member of the family Odobenidae
- Come face to face with polar bears, walruses, harbour seals and beluga whales.
- The team will also test walruses, sea otters, and clams in Alaska's Aleutian Islands for traces of PCBs, pesticides, and petroleum.
- Brian has concentrated on the ecological diversity of the region, with its rare flowers, walruses, Bowhead whales, bearded seals, Polar bears and sea birds.
- When Qallunaat introduced guns to Inuit, we only used them for the purpose of hunting wild game such as caribou, polar bears, seals, walruses, beluga and narwhal and everything that is edible.
- Cameraman Norris Brock and I were shooting several stories in nearby Kodiak, Alaska and, since the timing was right and the male walruses were doing their thing, we took a sidetrip.
- There are also caribou, wolves, walruses, polar bears and beluga whales.
- We were relieved not to have had to use our borrowed anti-polar bear rifle, but disappointed not to see any bears, walruses, narwhal or beluga.
- After an early buffet breakfast on Saturday morning, the family will spend the day at SeaWorld, home to killer whales, walruses, sea lions, beluga whales, sharks and Magellanic penguins.
- Cooper's team believes warmer water flowing north from the Bering Sea is largely responsible for melting the Arctic ice on which the walruses live.
- Killer whales - known as the wolves of the sea - are top Arctic predators, eating prey that includes fatty animals like walruses, seals, sea lions, and even other whales.
- In fact, only a handful of the 5,000 or so mammals - mostly semi-aquatic species such as whales, walruses, and hippopotamuses - are not covered in dense fur.
- These minute creatures are eaten by larger fish, and those by still larger fish, which in turn become lunch for polar bears, seals, walruses, and whales.
- Polar bears are seagoing hunters that roam vast areas of the Arctic, pursuing a movable feast of seals, narwhals, beluga whales, and walruses.
- Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice.
- The waters are also home to minke whales, several seal species, and walruses, among a multitude of other creatures.
- While you can get pretty close to walruses here, within 30 feet in some cases, you're not allowed to be on the beaches, so conversations are kept to a minimum and there's a rush to get up.
- The theme, obviously, is marine animals, and the inclusions range from humpback whales to tuna fish, from great white sharks to bottlenose dolphins, and from mermaids to walruses.
- Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals.
- Aquatic mammals that live in the waters off the coast include walrus, ringed seals, bearded seals, beluga, narwhal, and various other whales.
- Here in one of the world's richest marine environments - the waters between Alaska and Russia - polar bears, walruses, whales, seals, and countless birds thrive.
Origin
Early 18th century: probably from Dutch walrus, perhaps by an inversion of elements (influenced by walvis 'whale fish') of Old Norse hrosshvalr 'horse whale'.
The Anglo-Saxons seem to have thought the walrus looked a bit like a horse, for they called it the horschwæl, ‘horse-whale’. We owe our name for the creature to the Dutch, who took the same idea but reversed it: the wal- bit is ‘whale’ and -rus is probably ‘horse’.
Definition of walrus in US English:
walrus
nounˈwôlrəsˈwɔlrəs
A large gregarious marine mammal related to the eared seals, having two large downward-pointing tusks and found in the Arctic Ocean.
Odobenus rosmarus, the only member of the family Odobenidae
- In fact, only a handful of the 5,000 or so mammals - mostly semi-aquatic species such as whales, walruses, and hippopotamuses - are not covered in dense fur.
- These minute creatures are eaten by larger fish, and those by still larger fish, which in turn become lunch for polar bears, seals, walruses, and whales.
- Brian has concentrated on the ecological diversity of the region, with its rare flowers, walruses, Bowhead whales, bearded seals, Polar bears and sea birds.
- Killer whales - known as the wolves of the sea - are top Arctic predators, eating prey that includes fatty animals like walruses, seals, sea lions, and even other whales.
- Cameraman Norris Brock and I were shooting several stories in nearby Kodiak, Alaska and, since the timing was right and the male walruses were doing their thing, we took a sidetrip.
- Occasionally they even pluck a walrus, beluga whale, or narwhal from the watery depths below the pack ice.
- The waters are also home to minke whales, several seal species, and walruses, among a multitude of other creatures.
- Cooper's team believes warmer water flowing north from the Bering Sea is largely responsible for melting the Arctic ice on which the walruses live.
- Polar bears are seagoing hunters that roam vast areas of the Arctic, pursuing a movable feast of seals, narwhals, beluga whales, and walruses.
- When Qallunaat introduced guns to Inuit, we only used them for the purpose of hunting wild game such as caribou, polar bears, seals, walruses, beluga and narwhal and everything that is edible.
- There are also caribou, wolves, walruses, polar bears and beluga whales.
- Aquatic mammals that live in the waters off the coast include walrus, ringed seals, bearded seals, beluga, narwhal, and various other whales.
- We were relieved not to have had to use our borrowed anti-polar bear rifle, but disappointed not to see any bears, walruses, narwhal or beluga.
- The theme, obviously, is marine animals, and the inclusions range from humpback whales to tuna fish, from great white sharks to bottlenose dolphins, and from mermaids to walruses.
- Here in one of the world's richest marine environments - the waters between Alaska and Russia - polar bears, walruses, whales, seals, and countless birds thrive.
- After an early buffet breakfast on Saturday morning, the family will spend the day at SeaWorld, home to killer whales, walruses, sea lions, beluga whales, sharks and Magellanic penguins.
- While you can get pretty close to walruses here, within 30 feet in some cases, you're not allowed to be on the beaches, so conversations are kept to a minimum and there's a rush to get up.
- Come face to face with polar bears, walruses, harbour seals and beluga whales.
- The team will also test walruses, sea otters, and clams in Alaska's Aleutian Islands for traces of PCBs, pesticides, and petroleum.
- Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals.
Origin
Early 18th century: probably from Dutch walrus, perhaps by an inversion of elements (influenced by walvis ‘whale fish’) of Old Norse hrosshvalr ‘horse whale’.