tusk Meaning & Definition

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  • These holes and caves are mainly made by the forest elephants trunks, tusks and front legs.

  • Most of the dated archaeological finds are bone or tusk fragments, but a few are artefacts made of walrus tusk.

  • The length of the tusk is 49.5 cm, and it is dark brown and weathered.

  • A large replacement pit lies adjacent to the tusk.

  • A dentary tusk and tusk pit are present but there is no parasymphyseal tooth row.

  • Ivory tusks were ensured safe arrival at the coast after they had been ritually marked with spots, lines and figures.

  • The third grabs hold of a tusk and declares that an elephant is a cold smooth pillar.

  • For example, a clan leader seeking to participate in the ivory trade might have relied on dependent hunter-gatherers within his clan to procure elephant tusks.

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Translations of tusk In Other Languages

  • 中文繁体

    (大象等動物的)長牙…

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  • 中文简体

    (大象等动物的)长牙…

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  • Español

    colmillo, colmillo [masculine, singular]…

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  • Português

    presa, defesa…

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  • 日本語

    (象やイノシシなどの)きば…

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  • Türk dili

    fildişi, uzun diş…

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  • Français

    défense [feminine], défense…

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  • Catalan

    ullal…

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