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Noun Concept
Categories: Mammal anatomy, Bone products, Ivory, long volume value
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tusk  Tusks
EN
A long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog WordNet 3.0
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A long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. Wikipedia
Elongated tooth possessed by certain mammals. Wikipedia Disambiguation
An extremely long tooth of certain mammals that protrudes when the mouth is closed. OmegaWiki
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar. Wiktionary
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Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade. Wiktionary
IS A
tooth
PART OF
wild boar
elephant
tusker
DERIVATION
tusk
horn
tusked
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language
DIFFERENT FROM
fang
BG
Пресас
SUBSTANCE MERONYM
ivory
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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tusk
Wikipedia
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tusk
Wikidata
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tusk
Wiktionary
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tusk
OmegaWiki
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tusk
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tusks
Wikidata Alias
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Tusks

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