Noun: walrus
| Singular | walrus |
| Plural | walruses; walrus; walrii |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1887, James W. Buel, Sea and Land, page 251:]
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You old walrus, don't you think it is time for you to lop your whiskers off? [2008, James E. Martin, The Chartreuse Mongoose, page 145:]
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One, a rumpled, whiskered walrus of a man, held a lantern near Mother's face. [2013, Marione Ingram, The Hands of War:]
Nouns inflected like walrus
walrus,
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross. See: Dutch Nouns '
walrus', Old English Nouns '
horshwæl', Danish Nouns '
hvalros', Old Norse Nouns '
hrosshvalr', German Nouns '
Walross'.