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Ivory vs Milky - What's the difference?

ivory | milky |

As adjectives the difference between ivory and milky

is that ivory is made of ivory while milky is resembling milk in color or consistency.

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 *

    milky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Resembling milk in color or consistency.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • pails high foaming with a milky flood
  • * Arbuthnot
    • milky juice
  • (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
  • (colloquial) Cowardly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?
  • (obsolete) Yielding milk.
  • * Roscommon
    • milky mothers