Ivory

Noun

 * 1)  The hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
 * 2) A creamy white colour, the colour of ivory.
 * 3) Something made from or resembling ivory.
 * 4) (collective singular or in plural) The teeth.
 * 5) (collective singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.
 * 1) (collective singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.

Adjective

 * 1) Made of ivory.
 * 2) Resembling or having the colour of ivory.

Adjectives for Ivory
waxen; tinted; delicate; rose-ensanguined; carved.

Thesaurus
alabaster, alabastrine, albescent, billiard table, bones, bowling alley, bowling green, chalk, cream, creamy, cubes, dice, driven snow, dun-white, eggshell, fair, flat, fleece, flour, foam, glass, glaucescent, glaucous, gray-white, ice, ivory-white, level, light, lily, lint-white, maggot, mahogany, marble, milk, off-white, pale, paper, pearl, pearly, pearly-white, plane, satin, sheet, silk, silver, slide, smooth, snow, swan, tennis court, velvet, whitish, whity

Etymology
From ivorie:, from  ivurie:, from  eboreus: 'in or of ivory', form ebur: 'ivory', from   undefined: 'elephant', from  𓍋𓃀𓅱𓌟: (ȝbw: (âbu) 'elephant; ivory').

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Arabic: عاج
 * Armenian: փղոսկր
 * Bikol Central:
 * Catalan: ivori, vori, marfil
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 象牙
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: हाथीदांत, हाथी दांत
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: gading
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 象牙
 * Japanese: 象牙


 * Korean: 상아 (象牙)
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: слонова коска
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Old French:
 * Persian: عاج
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: слоновая кость
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: слоновача
 * Roman: slonovača
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: garing
 * Thai: งาช้าง
 * Urdu: ہاتھی دانت
 * Vietnamese: ngà voi, ngà
 * Waray:
 * Yiddish: העלפאַנדביין


 * Catalan: ivori, vori, marfil
 * Dutch:
 * French: ivoire
 * German:


 * Russian: слоновая кость, цвет слоновой кости
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: elfenbensfärg, elfenbensvitt


 * : olifant, ivor (1)
 * : gading
 * : ebore
 * : ebur
 * : vior
 * : gading

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, avorio


 * Portuguese: ebóreo, ebórea , ebúrneo , ebúrnea , de marfim
 * Spanish: de marfil
 * Swedish: s-


 * Dutch: ivoorkleurig, ivoorkleurige
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Swedish: elfenbensfärgad


 * : ebura
 * : eboree
 * : viorik

Derived terms

 * ivory tower
 * ivory black
 * Ivory Coast
 * ivory gull


 * ivory nut
 * ivory palm
 * ivory-billed woodpecker


 * ivory-nut palm
 * ivory-white
 * vegetable ivory

Related terms

 * chryselephantine
 * eburnation