elephant-tusk
- noun
- /ˈɛlɪfənt tʌsk/
- US
:
cuerno de elefante
- He whirled, only to goggle in amazement at a stack of elephant tusks, each bearing a golden tip guard.
Examples
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The authorities in Hong Kong have seized 1,209 elephant tusks in one of the largest shipments of illegal ivory in history.
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He whirled, only to goggle in amazement at a stack of elephant tusks, each bearing a golden tip guard.
Fiction book (1990) -
The horns above each eye curved five feet into the air, looking almost like inverted elephant tusks.
Fiction book (1990) -
The zoo arks harvest elephant tusks nowadays anyway, as do the African parks, so the beasts won't tear up trees or attract poachers.
Fiction book (1990) -
"This is the best," the Daxin Ivory Carving Factory's Feng tells me, holding up a chunk of elephant tusk.
Synonyms
A yearly plant with large pale flowers and long curved seed pods like a claw
A flowering plant with long beak-like white or yellow flowers marked with purple
A plant with large pale flowers and a long curved seed pod like a beak
A plant with large spotted flowers and a long curved beak-shaped flower part
A plant that lives one year with pale flowers marked with purple and a long curved seed pod
A plant with pale flowers spotted purple and a long curved seed pod like a claw
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word elephant-tusk combines elephant and tusk, where tusk means 'long tooth'. The plant's long, curved flowers look like an elephant's tusk, so the name helps you picture its beak-like blooms.
