Complete Definition of "walrus"

Image:Noaa-walrus30.jpg|thumb|A walrus
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English

Etymology
Danish hvalros, inversion of Old Norse hrosshvalr, "horse-whale". Confer Dutch walrus#Dutch|walrus, Icelandic hvalur and German Walross.

Noun
en-noun|es|pl2=walrus

  1. countable Large Arctic marine mammal (Odobenus rosmarus), related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers.

Synonyms
sea horse

Translations

Bosnian: morž m
Chinese: 海象 (h�ixiàng)
Czech: mrož m
Dutch: walrus m
Estonian: merihobu
Faroese: roysningur m
Finnish: mursu
French: morse m
German: Walross n
Inuktitut: ���
Italian: tricheco m
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Japanese: ���� (seiuchi)
Korean: ����리 (bada-kokkiri), �� (海象, haesang), �� (海馬, haema)
Norwegian: valross m
Polish: mors m
Portuguese: morsa f
Russian: мо�ж (morž) m
Slovak: mrož m
Spanish: morsa f
Slovene: mrož m
Swedish: valross c

See also
seal
sea lion, sealion

Category:English nouns with irregular plurals
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Dutch

Noun
walrus m (plural walrussen, diminutive walrusje)

  1. walrus#English|walrus

See also
zeehond m
zeeleeuw m

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