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Definition of tusk in English: tusknoun tʌsktəsk 1A long pointed tooth, especially one which protrudes from the closed mouth, as in the elephant, walrus, or wild boar. Example sentencesExamples - Men may have their noses pierced and wear wild pig or boar tusks.
- In flights over the park, Fraser and Kes Smith have found huge numbers of elephants killed for their tusks, at times with wounded and bewildered babies standing next to their slaughtered mothers.
- And there on a shelf, he noticed an elephant's ivory tusk.
- As soon as the animals collapsed, they hacked off their ivory tusks.
- Because poachers had obviously selected individuals for their tusks, the percentage of the elephants remaining without tusks had greatly increased.
- Researchers say experiments with 19 wild elephant groups in the reserve confirm anecdotal reports that the animals show keen interest in the bones and tusks of other dead elephants.
- Pigs' or boars' tusks are markedly curved but small in cross-section and with no visible grain.
- The mammals investigate remains with their feet and trunks, paying special attention to the skulls and tusks of even long-dead elephants.
- On May 10 customs officials in Hong Kong announced they had confiscated a shipment of 600 African elephant tusks.
- Elephants also carry the tusks and bones of their departed kin great distances and may even try to cover them with dirt or leaves.
- They are a big as walrus tusks, and I've considered pulling them and crafting some ivory jewelry.
- The tusk and several teeth of a Deinotherium giganteum, a distant relative of today's elephant and one of the largest mammals ever on Earth, were discovered on the Greek island Crete.
- She gingerly brought her fingertips to the place on her side where the boar's tusk had gouged her.
- Males are often bigger, more muscular, and have built-in weaponry - tusks, antlers, horns, spines, bigger teeth, or skulls built for butting.
- No meat had been taken, only the rhino horns and elephant tusks.
- The large creatures were grunting and groaning, and their large, curved tusks flashed in the moonlight.
- Sculpture and carving on bone and walrus tusk are the most highly developed forms of folk art among the Chukchi.
- Science shed little light on the narwhal tusk, however, and its purpose remained elusive.
- Humans have been killing elephants for their ivory tusks for more than 4,000 years.
- Mammoth tusks grow a little bit every day.
- 1.1 A long, tapering object or projection resembling a tusk.
as modifier a tusk tenon joint
Derivatives adjective tʌskttəskt Each side acquires wives for the other and redeems their spirits at death by providing their maternal kin with tusked boars and yams. Example sentencesExamples - In the 1980s their numbers dipped to dangerously low levels due to ivory poaching, but an effort to bring back the tusked mammal has had considerable success.
- Several possible explanations for the presence of two forms, tusked and tuskless, exist: the fossils could be of different species; different ages within a species; or the same species, opposite sexes.
- The tusked narwhal, white beluga whales and elusive bowhead whale all live off the northern part of this island.
- In the 1970s men of rank travelled regularly as far as Santo to obtain tusked boars for their rituals although since Independence in 1980, there has been a resurgence of home-bred tusked boars.
adjective ˈtʌskiˈtəski literary 1Having tusks. the stuffed heads of a bear and a tusky wild boar - 1.1 Having or showing large, numerous, or prominent teeth.
Example sentencesExamples - ‘The walrus is tusky, curmudgeonly,’ he blathered to the Boston Globe.
- he flashed her a tusky grin
Origin Old English tux, variant of tusc (see tush2). Rhymes busk, dusk, husk, musk, rusk Definition of tusk in US English: tusknountəsktəsk 1A long, pointed tooth, especially one specially developed so as to protrude from the closed mouth, as in the elephant, walrus, or wild boar. Example sentencesExamples - No meat had been taken, only the rhino horns and elephant tusks.
- Elephants also carry the tusks and bones of their departed kin great distances and may even try to cover them with dirt or leaves.
- In flights over the park, Fraser and Kes Smith have found huge numbers of elephants killed for their tusks, at times with wounded and bewildered babies standing next to their slaughtered mothers.
- Researchers say experiments with 19 wild elephant groups in the reserve confirm anecdotal reports that the animals show keen interest in the bones and tusks of other dead elephants.
- Humans have been killing elephants for their ivory tusks for more than 4,000 years.
- Science shed little light on the narwhal tusk, however, and its purpose remained elusive.
- And there on a shelf, he noticed an elephant's ivory tusk.
- On May 10 customs officials in Hong Kong announced they had confiscated a shipment of 600 African elephant tusks.
- The large creatures were grunting and groaning, and their large, curved tusks flashed in the moonlight.
- The tusk and several teeth of a Deinotherium giganteum, a distant relative of today's elephant and one of the largest mammals ever on Earth, were discovered on the Greek island Crete.
- As soon as the animals collapsed, they hacked off their ivory tusks.
- Males are often bigger, more muscular, and have built-in weaponry - tusks, antlers, horns, spines, bigger teeth, or skulls built for butting.
- She gingerly brought her fingertips to the place on her side where the boar's tusk had gouged her.
- The mammals investigate remains with their feet and trunks, paying special attention to the skulls and tusks of even long-dead elephants.
- Pigs' or boars' tusks are markedly curved but small in cross-section and with no visible grain.
- Sculpture and carving on bone and walrus tusk are the most highly developed forms of folk art among the Chukchi.
- Mammoth tusks grow a little bit every day.
- They are a big as walrus tusks, and I've considered pulling them and crafting some ivory jewelry.
- Men may have their noses pierced and wear wild pig or boar tusks.
- Because poachers had obviously selected individuals for their tusks, the percentage of the elephants remaining without tusks had greatly increased.
- 1.1 A long, tapering object or projection resembling a tusk.
as modifier a tusk tenon joint
Origin Old English tux, variant of tusc (see tush). |