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Tusk

Noun

Définitions

1.NounOne of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
"Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade."
2.NounA small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
3.NounA tusk shell.
4.NounA projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
5.NounA sharp point.
6.NounThe share of a plough.
7.VerbTo dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
8.VerbTo gore with the tusks.
9.VerbTo bare or gnash the teeth.
10.NounAn edible fish, Brosme brosme.
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