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walrus

DEFINITIONS OF: walrus

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

Synonyms:
sea horse, seahorse
Types:
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
Type of:
pinnatiped, pinniped, pinniped mammal
aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
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