Ivory vs Ivorylike - What's the difference?
ivory | ivorylike |
(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.
Made of ivory.
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, title= Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
Resembling ivory.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
As adjectives the difference between ivory and ivorylike
is that ivory is made of ivory while ivorylike is resembling 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
See also
* GalalithAdjective
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
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 ivorySee also
* odontolite * scrimshaw * whalebone *ivorylike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The waxen pallor of her face was almost spiritual in its ivorylike purity though her rosebud mouth was a genuine Cupid's bow, Greekly perfect.