Tusk

Noun

 * 1) One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
 * Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
 * 1) A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.

Verb

 * 1) To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.

Thesaurus
baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, canine, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, gore, grinder, horn, incisor, milk tooth, molar, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, premolar, scrivello, snag, snaggletooth, tooth, tush, wisdom tooth

Etymology
From tux:, tusc:, cognate with Old Frisian tusk:, probably from the, an extended form of the linguistic root of tooth:. Cognates with the Old Norse toskr: and Icelandic toskur:, whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively.

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: ullal
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dentego
 * Finnish:
 * French: dent saillante, défense
 * German:


 * Greek: χαυλιόδοντας
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (きば, kiba)
 * Polish:
 * Russian: клык (walrus', boar's);  (elephant's)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: pembe-jino, pembe-meno
 * Telugu: దంతము (daMtamu)
 * West Frisian: slachttosk

Related terms

 * tusked
 * tusker
 * tusklike
 * tusky
 * tusk tenon

Noun
tusk


 * 1) tooth