Tusks

Word TUSKS
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Definitions and meanings of "Tusks"

What do we mean by tusks?

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.

A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.

A sharp point.

The share of a plough.

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The word "tusks" in example sentences

Reflect that, although the graph refers to tusks obtained from licensed kills, the selection pressure that produced the trend could well have come mostly from poaching. ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)

Sprouting behind the tusks was a snaggle of fangs that glistened razor-sharp in the argent twilight. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1997)

Taking out the tusks was a delicate task: a slip of the axe would scar the ivory and halve its value. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1964)

Only you would imagine that writing an article about elephant poaching in Kenya would be ambiguous without the author pompously trumpeting "Killing elephants illegally for their tusks is a huge sin and I condemn it in all possible terms." ❋ Unknown (2009)

BTW, my first thought on seeing the "tusks" on the mole rat was that it had French fries stuck up its nose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before she woke up, he removed the "tusks" and put in the proper replacement teeth. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

When a man can kill bison for their tongues alone, bull elk for their "tusks" alone, and shoot a whole colony of hippopotami, -- actually damming a river with their bloated and putrid carcasses, all untouched by the knife, -- the men who do such things must be classed with the cruel wolf and the criminal dog. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

Mr. Batten adds that in imagining what kind of Demon the Eclipse Demon was, the Jataka writer was probably aided by recollections of some giant octopus, who has saucer eyes and a kind of hawk's beak, knobs on its "tusks," and a very variegated belly ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)

Also the billet sensors (aka "tusks") were plastic and did not resemble the film ones in the least in terms of surface or, really, shape. ❋ Lil' Louie (2010)

This most certainly marked it as an early proboscidean as members of this group of mammals had the number of their incisors reduced during their evolutionary history, with many later forms (including modern elephants) retaining only the modified second incisors commonly called "tusks" in the upper jaw. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who would have guessed that, sometime between 99 and 65 million years ago, there was a short-snouted crocodylian with "tusks" in its mouth and armadillo-like armor on its back? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their tusks provide income, and reducing their numbers protects subsistence farming. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Since I brought up that subject, allow me to state that when I was in Uganda at Murchison Falls National Park in 1969, the park had a huge elephant population and when Idi Amin took over shortly thereafter, almost all of the elephants were killed in subsequent years for sport as well as for their tusks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was 6:47 p.m. when a gleaming set of white tusks poked through the end of the newly built underpass. ❋ AP (2011)

Because elephant tusks have increased in value, poaching is "really a big, big danger," Pameri said. ❋ AP (2011)

Dog-like crocodiles and crocodiles with tusks once roamed the Earth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One day there was an article on the news about mature male elephants being killed by poachers for their tusks. ❋ Lili (2009)

She laughed and said, 'See, if evolution were true, they'd just evolve away their tusks!' ❋ Lili (2009)

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