tusk

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English - Turkish
{i} uzun diş
azı dişi
fil/yaban domuzu dişi
{i} mors veya yabandomuzunun uzun azıdişi
{i} fildişi
fildiş

Her yıl on binlerce fil, fildişleri için öldürülür. - Tens of thousands of elephants are killed every year for their ivory tusks.

(Hayvan Bilim, Zooloji) savunma dişi

Related Terms

tusk tenon
şaşırtmalı geçme
tusk tenon
sasirtmali geçme
tusked
(sıfat) uzun dişli
tusked
{s} uzun dişli
English - English
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.

A small projection on a (tusk) tenon
To dig up using a tusk, as boars do
{n} a fang, a very large foretooth
remove the tusks of animals; "tusk an elephant"
A toothshell, or Dentalium; called also tusk-shell
One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc
To bare or gnash the teeth
a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
hence, any long, protruding tooth
{i} long protruding tooth often found in pairs (in the walrus, elephant, etc.); something resembling an animal tusk
a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog remove the tusks of animals; "tusk an elephant
Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth
Same as Torsk
stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"
a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets
The tusks of an elephant, wild boar, or walrus are its two very long, curved, pointed teeth

Related Terms

tusk shell
any of the marine mollusks of the class Scaphopoda, which look similar to elephant tusks
tusked
{a} furnished with tusks, hostile
tusked
past of tusk
tusked
Furnished with tusks
tusked
{s} having a tusk or tusks, having a long protruding tooth
tusks
plural of tusk
tusk

    Turkish pronunciation

    tʌsk

    Pronunciation

    /ˈtəsk/ /ˈtʌsk/

    Etymology

    [ 't&sk ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Old English tux, tusc, cognate with Old Frisian tusk, probably from the Proto-Germanic *tunthskaz, an extended form of the linguistic root of tooth. Cognates with the Old Norse toskr (“a tusk, a tooth”) and Icelandic toskur, whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively.
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