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Antlers vs Tusk - What's the difference?

antlers | tusk |

As nouns the difference between antlers and tusk

is that antlers is while tusk is one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar or tusk can be a fish, the torsk.

As a verb tusk is

to dig up using a tusk, as boars do.

antlers

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

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    tusk

    English

    (wikipedia tusk)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
    • Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
  • A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  • A tusk shell.
  • (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth .

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  • (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

    • Related terms

    * tusked * tusker * tusklike * tusky * tusk tenon

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the torsk.
    • (Webster 1913) ----