ATLANTIC WALRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Atlantic walrus mean? 

• ATLANTIC WALRUS (noun)
  The noun ATLANTIC WALRUS has 1 sense:

1. a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters

  Familiarity information: ATLANTIC WALRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATLANTIC WALRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Atlantic walrus; Odobenus rosmarus

Hypernyms ("Atlantic walrus" is a kind of...):

sea horse; seahorse; walrus (either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber)

 Context examples 

The DNA showed that, during the last Ice Age, the Atlantic walrus divided into two ancestral lines, which researchers term “eastern” and “western”.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)