Tusk Synonyms

tŭsk
A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fang
  2. tooth
  3. ivory
  4. incisor
  5. canine-tooth
  6. canine
  7. tush
Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. horn
Remove the tusks of animals
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. detusk

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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.

  • Ganesha 's most unusual facet is his single tusk, the other having broken off.

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