walrus

FREQ #19675

n. 海象

发音

UK /ˈwɔːl.ɹəs/
UK /ˈwɒl.ɹəs/
US /ˈwɑl.ɹəs/
US /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
AU /ˈwoːl.ɹəs/
AU /ˈwɔl.ɹəs/
SCOT /ˈwɔl.ɾəs/

词形变化

walri walrii walruses 复数 walruses walrusses walrusses 复数 walri 复数 walrii 复数 nonstandard 复数 proscribed 复数 walrused walruses 三单 walrusing walrussed walrussing walrusses 三单 walrusing 现在分词 walrussing 现在分词 walrused 过去式 walrused 过去分词 walrussed 过去式 walrussed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus.

    海象

    海马

  2. 2.

    A man with a walrus moustache.

    贬义 非正式
v.
  1. 1.

    To hunt walruses

  2. 2.

    To be like a walrus

    To move dragging one's belly along the floor

  3. 3.

    To be like a walrus

    To hang like a walrus's moustache

  4. 4.

    To be like a walrus

    To be prominent, like tusks

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

seahorse

上位词 1

pinniped

相关短语

walrus mustache [网络] 海象胡子 walrus mustaches walrus moustache n. 海象胡子, 两端下垂的胡子 walrus moustaches walrus operator walrus operators Ambien walrus

词源

Probably borrowed from Dutch walrus, a compound of wal (“whale”) and ros (“horse”). Displaced native Old English horshwæl (literally “horse-whale”). Compare similar constructions in Danish hvalros, Old Norse hrosshvalr, and German Walross.

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