Definitions for walrus

walrus wal·rus

Spelling: [wawl-ruh s, wol-]
IPA: /ˈwɔl rəs, ˈwɒl-/

Walrus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in walrus (alrsuw).

Definitions for walrus

noun

  1. a large marine mammal, Odobenus nosmarus, of arctic seas, related to the seals, and having flippers, a pair of large tusks, and a tough, wrinkled skin.

Origin of walrus

1645-55; Dutch: literally, whale horse; cognate with German Walross, Danish hvalros; compare Old English horshwæl horse-whale

Examples for walrus

He understood the habits of the walrus, and knew that they would rise again.

The shoulder blade of a walrus fastened to a ski served as spade.

Like the kayaks, it was covered with seal-skin; or perhaps it might have been the hide of the walrus.

Then I like the Carpenter best—if he didn't eat so many as the walrus.

Reindeer, seal, and walrus bones were seen in great quantities.

Five walrus were snorting and barking in a hole which they had broken in the ice.

A walrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a fish, because he is amphibious.

An', well—I hates t' say it, but—well, they called her 'walrus Liz.'

They was ashore nigh on a week, and us standing off and on in the old walrus.

Her work has appeared in The walrus, Toronto Life, Hazlitt, This, and The Guardian.

Word Value for walrus
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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