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# walrus

«walrus» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very large sea mammal of the Arctic with long white…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a walrus, walruses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A walrus is a very large sea mammal of the Arctic with long white tusks, whiskers, flippers and a thick layer of fat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#m1)

2) (informal) A walrus moustache is a big, thick, drooping moustache like the walrus's whiskers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the Arctic and adaptations, the walrus keeps warm with blubber, uses its tusks to pull itself out of the water onto ice and to fight, and finds clams on the sea floor with its sensitive whiskers. Walruses are threatened as sea ice melts with climate change. In poems such as «The Walrus and the Carpenter» it is a funny character. Phrases: a herd of walruses, walrus tusks, walrus moustache.

### examples

- The walrus pulled itself onto the ice with its tusks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x1)
- Walruses live in the cold Arctic seas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x2)
- A walrus uses its whiskers to find clams on the sea floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x3)
- A thick layer of blubber keeps the walrus warm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x4)
- Hundreds of walruses lay together on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x5)
- Melting sea ice is making life harder for walruses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x6)
- Grandad has a big walrus moustache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x7)
- We read «The Walrus and the Carpenter» by Lewis Carroll. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x8)
- Farther on were the walruses with pig's heads, and teeth a yard long, rolling about like great worms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/#x9)

### note

Countable: one walrus, two walruses (add -es). Pronounced «WAWL-rus». Both male and female walruses have tusks, which are long teeth. A group is a herd. Do not confuse with seals and sea lions, which are relatives without big tusks.

### In the corpora

- [Walruses find clams on the dark seabed with hundreds of sensitive whiskers and suck them out of their shells.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «walrus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walrus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.