Tusk Synonyms

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canine-tooth
One of the pointed teeth behind the incisors and in front of the premolar teeth.
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tooth
The definition of a tooth is the hard, small, white parts covered in enamel and set in the jaw or something that resembles them in structure or function.
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incisor
A tooth adapted for cutting or gnawing, located at the front of the mouth along the apex of the dental arch.
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ivory
Teeth
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horn
(Archaic) To cuckold
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fang
One of the long, pointed teeth with which meat-eating animals seize and tear their prey; canine tooth
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canine
A sharp-pointed tooth on either side of the upper jaw and lower jaw, between the incisors and the bicuspids, having a long single root; a cuspid or (in the upper jaw) eyetooth
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tush
A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
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detusk
To remove the tusks from (an elephant, a boar, etc.).
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Words Related to Tusk

antler
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jawbone
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pincers
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snout
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beak
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cusk
A food fish (Brosme brosme) of North Atlantic coastal waters that is related to the cod.
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Tusk Sentence Examples

  • A tusk in the British Museum measures io ft.

  • Payne in Madras, one tusk measures 6 ft.

  • The ivory of which the tusk is composed is of very good quality, but owing to the central cavity, only fitted for the manufacture of objects of small size.

  • In the wild boar (Sus scrofa) the upper or hinder surface of the lower tusk, which has no enamel, inclines obliquely outwards and is broader than the outer surface.

  • A deep pulp cavity in the upper third of the tusk restricts the working of the ivory around the hollow cavity to shallow carving.

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