walrus

noun
🔊/ˈwɔːlrəs/
🔊/ˈwɔːlrəs/
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  1. an animal like a large seal (= a sea animal with thick fur, that eats fish and lives around coasts), that has two long outer teeth called tusks and lives in Arctic regions海象(形似海豹,獠牙较长,栖息在北极海域)Topics Animalsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryWalrus is used before these nouns:
    • ivory
    • moustache
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    Word Originearly 18th cent.: probably from Dutch walrus, perhaps by an inversion of elements (influenced by walvis ‘whale fish’) of Old Norse hrosshvalr ‘horse whale’.