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Definition of Pacific walrus
1. Noun. A walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacific Walrus
Literary usage of Pacific walrus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1894)
"His published pictures and notes were such a complete revelation regarding the
actual form and habits of the Pacific walrus as to cause much astonishment ..."
2. Hunting in the Arctic and Alaska by Edward Marshall Scull (1914)
"Pacific walrus (small) for comparison with Atlantic variety. 7. Female.
National collection (EP Lamed). ... Length, 241; circ., 7 J. (Harry Pacific walrus ..."
3. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"11 have seen no description of this Pacific walrus which is as good as is the
first notice of it ever made to English readers, by Captain Cook, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... as formerly, comes south to Nova Scotia or Southern Norway, and is scarce
around Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla. The Pacific walrus is no longer ..."
5. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1892)
"Skin of Pacific walrus, from Behring Strait. One pair snowshoes, Nunivak Island,
Behring Sea,1 Presented by Capt. ..."
6. Annual Report (new Series). by Geological Survey of Canada (1905)
"Skin of Pacific walrus, from Behring Strait. Presented by Capt. MA Healy. One pair
snowshoes, Nunivak Island, Bell-'! ring Sea, ..."
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