She-walrus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: She-walrus is a noun meaning (rare) A female walrus.
Meaning
(rare) A female walrus.
Example Sentences
Charlie Slowokok told us about the she-walrus's love for her young. On one occasion he had watched a she-walrus from a distance hugging her offspring between her fore-fins, breast feeding it and playing with it afterwards.
One day they joined some other kayakers, and went in pursuit of a very large she-walrus. Kunuk lanced it four times at a greater distance than usual, and his arrow went right through the animal, which, panting for breath, after a minute or two was quite dead.
The advice given always consists of certain things that the one threatened must not do, rules of conduct that coincide with the various ones before mentioned ; or also, a dietary may be prescribed, such, for instance, as that the person must not eat he-walrus and only certain portions of the she-walrus ; that all his food must be boiled, and so on.
Word Forms
- she-walruses
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include morse, wolfess, she-elephant, odobenine, odobenid, walrus.
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