elephant tusk
Ivory source appendage
An elephant tusk is one of the elongated upper incisor teeth that protrude from an elephant's mouth, composed of ivory.
Tusks serve elephants for digging, stripping bark, and defense.
The ivory trade has driven extensive poaching, making tusks central to elephant conservation efforts: The poachers were after elephant tusks.
Carved elephant tusks once decorated Victorian parlors.
- ivoryTusk-derived material
- ivory tradeCommerce in elephant tusks
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- black marketIllicit trading system
- trunkMain stem or storage
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- wildlife tradewildlife trafficking, illegal trade, poaching, ivory trade, rhino horn
- hornsFrench horn, bugle, cornet, hunting horn, post horn
- spiralsspiral, helix, logarithmic spiral, coil, whorl