tusk
/tʌsk/
noun
- A long, pointed tooth that sticks out of the mouth of some animals, such as elephants, walruses, or wild boars.
- The elephant used its tusk to dig for water in the dry riverbed.
- A walrus uses its long tusks to pull itself onto ice floes.
- Poachers hunt elephants for their valuable ivory tusks.
- A long, pointed object that looks like an animal's tusk, often used as a decoration or tool.
- She wore a necklace made of small, polished tusks.
- The museum displayed a carved tusk from a prehistoric mammoth.
- The handle of the knife was carved from a boar's tusk.
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