TUSK (Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase) definition

TUSK (Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase)

WordNet

(1) A long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog

(2) A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

(3) Remove the tusks of animals

"Tusk an elephant"

(4) Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

"The rhino horned the explorer"

WiktionaryText

English

From tux, tusc, cognate with Old Frisian tusk, probably from the Proto-Germanic root tunthskaz, an extended form of the linguistic root of tooth.

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.