What is the difference between ivory and tusk?
ivory | tusk |
(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.
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
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 .
As nouns the difference between ivory and tusk
is that ivory is the hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals 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.As an adjective ivory
is made of ivory.As a verb tusk is
to dig up using a tusk, as boars do.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 *tusk
English
(wikipedia tusk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
