Walrus

Definitions

1. A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.
2. A man with a walrus moustache.
   derogatory, informal, sometimes

Equivalents

Examples

“Of all the Phocine family none present⟳ so terrible and grotesque an appearance as the gigantic Walrus, also known as the morse and sea-horse.”

“You old walrus, don't you think⟳ it is time for you to lop your whiskers off?”

“One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face⟳.”

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