she-walrus

English

Etymology

she- +‎ walrus

Noun

she-walrus (plural she-walruses or she-walrus)

  1. (rare) A female walrus.
    • 1908, Knud Rasmussen, The people of the Polar north; a record, page 153:
      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.
    • 1964, Sven Gillsäter, Wave After Wave, page 70:
      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.
    • 2014, Hinrich Rink, Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo, page 139:
      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.

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