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WALRUS

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• WALRUS (noun)
The noun WALRUS has 1 sense:

1. either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber

Familiarity information: WALRUS used as a noun is very rare.

• WALRUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

sea horse; seahorse; walrus

Hypernyms ("walrus" is a kind of...):

pinnatiped; pinniped; pinniped mammal (aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "walrus"):

Atlantic walrus; Odobenus rosmarus (a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters)

Odobenus divergens; Pacific walrus (a walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific)

Holonyms ("walrus" is a member of...):

genus Odobenus; Odobenus (type genus of the Odobenidae: walruses)

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Useful links:
Definition of Odobenus
Definition of pinniped mammal
Definition of genus Odobenus
Definition of Odobenus divergens
Definition of pinniped

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