walrus• He was a tallheavy-set man of about sixty, bald, with a brick-red face and a walrusmoustache.• It makes you look like a walrus.• Carl thus became the first and possibly the only man ever to successfully lassomuskox, polarbears, and walrus.• He stared at the old stooped man with the thinninggreyhair and bushywalrus moustache who controlled the nation's money.• He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarlessshirt with the sleevesrolled up.• He was thick-set, with thinning hair brushed back, a magnificentwalrus moustache and several missing teeth.• The walrus followed us in to the shallows, and we hurriedly jumped out on to the shore to get better pictures.
Originwalrus
(1700-1800)Dutch perhaps from Old Norsehrosshvalr“horse-whale”