walrus
noun /ˈwɔːlrəs/
/ˈwɔːlrəs/
- an animal like a large seal (= a sea animal with thick fur, that eats fish and lives around coasts), that has two long outer teeth called tusks and lives in Arctic regionsTopics Animalsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryWalrus is used before these nouns:
- ivory
- moustache
Word Originearly 18th cent.: probably from Dutch walrus, perhaps by an inversion of elements (influenced by walvis ‘whale fish’) of Old Norse hrosshvalr ‘horse whale’.