walrus
Syllables: wal·rusUK/ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/
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Australia/ˈwoːl.ɹəs/
walrus noun: a large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
Noun
walrus (plural walruses or walrus or (uncommon) walrusses or (both, nonstandard, proscribed, uncommon and often humorous) walri or walrii)
- A large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
- Of all the Phocine family none present so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.1887, James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251
- A man with a walrus moustache.
- You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?2008, James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose, page 145
- One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face.2013, Marione Ingram, The Hands of War
Verb
walrus (third-person singular simple present walruses or (uncommon) walrusses, present participle walrusing or (uncommon) walrussing, simple past and past participle walrused or (uncommon) walrussed)
- To hunt walruses
- It's strange to see parties of merrymakers gather where I nearly drowned, and later walrused with David Isaakovich, Father Basil and the rest of them.2016, Andrey Kurkov, The President's Last Love, Kiev, 9 May 1985
- To move dragging one's belly along the floor
- Gaddy walrused herself from the back seat2020, Will Ferguson, The Finder: A Novel
- To hang like a walrus's moustache
- His untrimmed mustache walrused down and over his hidden mouth2000, Michael L. McCoy, The Hunter, the Hound and a Rogue
- To be prominent, like tusks
- Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.2011, Robert Buettner, Overkill
walrus meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
walrus in Hindi
- large Arctic marine mammal
- वालरस vālras
walrus in Tamil
- கடற்பசு
walrus in Marathi
- वालरस, वॉलरस, वॉलरसला
walrus in Urdu
- large Arctic marine mammal
- والرس vālras
More languagesFewer languages
- walrus in Bengali
- সিন্ধুঘোটক śindhughōṭok
- walrus in Telugu
- వాల్రస్ vālras
- walrus in Malayalam
- വാൽറസ് vālṟasŭ
- walrus in Kannada
- ವಾಲ್ರಸ್, ವಾಲ್ರೂಸ್, ವಾಲ್ರಸ್ಗೆ
- walrus in Punjabi
- ਵਾਲਰਸ vālras
- walrus in Gujarati
- વોલરસ volras
- walrus in Odia
- ୱାଲରସ, ୱାଲ୍ରସ୍, ୱାଲରସ୍
- walrus in Nepali
- वालरस, वाल्रस, वालरुसिङ
- walrus in Tagalog
- morsa
- walrus in Arabic
- فَظّ faẓẓ
- walrus in Malay
- walrus, gajah mina
- walrus in Persian
- گراز دریایی gorâz-e daryâyi
- walrus in Thai
- วอลรัส wɔɔl-rás
- walrus in Vietnamese
- moóc, voi biển, hải tượng
- walrus in Myanmar
- ဝါးလရပ်ဖျံ wa:la.raphpyam
Examples of walrus in a sentence
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:walrii.
- Her bed was not made of soft bearskins, but of hard walrus hide.
- Most Aboriginal drawings show the Bunyip with a tail like a horse, and flippers and tusks like a walrus.
Synonyms of walrus
Forms of walrus
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | walruses |
| plural | walrus |
| plural uncommon | walrusses |
| plural | walrii |
| plural often proscribed uncommon (nonstandard, humorous) | walri |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | walruses |
| third-person singular present uncommon | walrusses |
| present participle | walrusing |
| present participle uncommon | walrussing |
| past participle | walrused |
| past | walrused |
| past participle uncommon | walrussed |
| past uncommon | walrussed |
Origin of walrus
Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.
Words formed from walrus
Phrases with walrus
Questions about walrus
- What does walrus mean?
- Walrus means a large Arctic pinniped having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
- What is walrus in Hindi?
- Walrus in Hindi is वालरस (vālras). See Walrus meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is walrus?
- Walrus can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce walrus?
- Walrus is pronounced /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of walrus?
- The plural of walrus is walruses.
Words near walrus in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: walrus (page history and authors); walrus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); walrus (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); walrus (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); વોલરસ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); walrus (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); walrus (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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