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Ivory vs Eburnine - What's the difference?

ivory | eburnine |

In lang=en terms the difference between ivory and eburnine

is that ivory is a white person while eburnine is like ivory.

As adjectives the difference between ivory and eburnine

is that ivory is made of ivory while eburnine is like ivory.

As a noun ivory

is the hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.

ivory

English

(wikipedia ivory)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
  • A creamy white colour, the colour of ivory.
  • Something made from or resembling ivory.
  • (collective singular or in plural) The teeth.
  • (collective singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.
  • (slang) A white person.

    • See also

    * Galalith

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of ivory.
  • *, chapter=10
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  • Resembling or having the colour of ivory.

    • Derived terms

    * ivory tower * ivory black * Ivory Coast * ivory gull * ivory nut * ivory palm * ivory-billed woodpecker * ivory-nut palm * ivory shell * ivory-white * vegetable ivory

    Related terms

    * chryselephantine * eburnation

    See also

    * odontolite * scrimshaw * whalebone *

    eburnine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Like ivory.
  • * 1958 , Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar :
    • On a square of grey silk lay several objects with a direct relationship to our brimming thoughts – the great hatpin with its ugly blue stone head, and the eburnine ring of my lover which I could not see even now without a pang.