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Pacific walrus   /pəsˈɪfɪk wˈɔlrəs/   Listen
Pacific walrus

noun
1.
A walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific.  Synonym: Odobenus divergens.






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"Pacific walrus" Quotes from Famous Books



... sheers the bidarka off from the ice, or the ice off from the bidarka. Then, when the fog lies knife-thick over the dangerous rocks in summer time, there is a certain signal to these deep-sea plunderers. The huge Pacific walrus—the largest species of walrus in the world—lie in herds of hundreds on these danger rocks, and the walrus snorts through the gray mist like a continual fog-horn. No better danger signal exists among the rocks of the North Pacific than this same snorting ...
— Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward • Agnes C. Laut



Words linked to "Pacific walrus" :   Odobenus divergens, seahorse, sea horse, walrus



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