tusk
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- noun
- /tʌsk/
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- Including the one with the boar tusks.
- elephant tusks
- ivory tusks
- large tusks
For years and years and years they were exporting mammoth tusks, ivory, right?
- For years and years and years they were exporting mammoth tusks, ivory, right?
- I mean, the, the, the price for these tusks is insane.
- Like rhino tusks are more valuable per pound than diamonds and cocaine.
- So you would expect to see the same features between your teeth and a Tusk.
- Even on the inside of the pieces where you have the kind of net of structure which formed the marrow of the tusks, so to speak.
- The hint of gleaming tusks took form within his mind, yellowed eyes that shone with Glee fixed on his own.
Examples
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I've never seen one with a tusk that made two curves.
Fiction book (2000) -
Yours has the tusks on it.
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I did get one of his tusks, though.
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He gave me her tusk.
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Twice, crying, I showed Mathu the bloody tusk of an elephant.
Fiction book (1994) -
To reach it, the elephants have dug wells with their feet and tusks.
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She's an enormous beast, with great scaly feet and the most prominent pair of tusks I've ever seen.
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Upward from its lower jaw sprang two tusks the size of a man's forearm, white and gleaming in the sun.
Fiction book (1990) -
Long trunks curled around each other, tusks intertwined, humped shoulders flowing into shaggy backs.
Fiction book (2000) -
While walking through the savanna, we spotted an elephant with long ivory tusks gleaming in the sunlight.
Synonyms
A long pointed tooth on animals like boars or elephants
Compounds
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tusk comes from an old Norse word that meant a 'tooth' or 'long tooth', so it helps to think of a tusk as a very long tooth that animals use like a tool or a weapon.