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UK
/wˈɒlɹəs/
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[ US /ˈwɔɫɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈwɔɫɹəs/ ]
NOUN
- either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
How To Use walrus In A Sentence
- It is the Elephant and Walrus Kingdoms that greet you today.
- 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.
- 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.
- A chicken nibbled on smashed watermelon, and dancers swam in a plastic water flume, and a fake walrus lumbered across the stage.
- He was lucky enough to find one of the walrus ' tusks whole and undamaged. THE BROKEN GOD
- 'World Heritage Sites' (Firefly Books, 2011) takes readers on a tour of the planet's highlights, from the famous (Egypt's pyramids) to the more far-flung (the Wrangel Island reserve in the Arctic, home to many walruses and ancestral polar-bear dens). An Armchair Tour of World Wonders
- The book features lots of colour photos and mostly Inuit writers' tips on everything from dogsledding and walrus watching to luxury cruises and the dangers of ice floes.
- Leif gave her a gold finger-ring, a Greenland wadmal mantle, and a belt of walrus-tusk. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
- Walrus ivory is derived from the male animal and usually has a much smaller cross-section.
- His colleagues have been debating whether the carcass belongs to a bearded seal, a walrus or a beluga whale.