tusk
Elephant's prominent incisor
A tusk is a long, pointed tooth that extends outside the mouth of certain animals, most notably elephants, walruses, and wild boars.
Unlike regular teeth, tusks grow continuously throughout the animal's life and serve purposes ranging from digging and defense to social display.
Elephant tusks are made of ivory, which has historically made these animals targets for poaching.
The walrus used its tusks to haul itself onto the ice.
To tusk is to dig or gore with tusks.
Tusked gray giant
- carvingShaping by cutting away
- scrimshawEngraved whale ivory art
- piano keysInstrument's pressed surfaces
- tradeExchange of commodities
smuggling · poaching · CITES · ban · illegal · black market · ornament · figurine
Stretched beyond usual dimensions
- incisorCutting tooth in front
- canineOf or like dogs
- enamelHard glossy coating
- dentinTooth's main substance
growth · curved · protrusion · root · keratin · boar · walrus · narwhal
Extinct elephant with curved tusks
- mastodonExtinct elephantine Pleistocene mammal
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
- saber-toothedWith extended fang-like teeth
- megafaunaSpecies over 44 kilograms
Pleistocene · Ice Age · woolly · permafrost · excavation · paleontology · extinct · preserved
elephant
Tusked gray giant
- carvingShaping by cutting away
- scrimshawEngraved whale ivory art
- piano keysInstrument's pressed surfaces
trade · smuggling · poaching · CITES · ban · illegal · black market · ornament · figurine · chess piece
elongated
Stretched beyond usual dimensions
dentin · growth · curved · protrusion · root · keratin · boar · walrus · narwhal · warthog
mammoth
Extinct elephant with curved tusks
- mastodonExtinct elephantine Pleistocene mammal
- fossilPreserved ancient organism
- saber-toothedWith extended fang-like teeth
megafauna · Pleistocene · Ice Age · woolly · permafrost · excavation · paleontology · extinct · preserved · frozen
gore
Graphic bloody violence
defense · attack · fighting · dominance · sparring · jousting · piercing · lethal · combat · wound
strength
Power to exert force
trophy · majesty · wildness · noble · primal · totem · heraldry · mascot · insignia · ornamental
- animal partsappendage, forelimb, hind leg, hind legs, hindlegs
- teethteeth, incisors, incisor, canine, canines
- Hard Tissuebone, enamel, dentin, skeleton, skull
- mouthpartsmandible, mandibles, maxilla, maxillae, labium
- ancient materialsflint, bone, stone, wood, antler
- Atlantic fishAtlantic cod, Atlantic salmon, haddock, pollock, pollack
- elephant tuskElongated pachyderm incisor
- narwhal tuskMarine mammal's spiral tooth
- mammoth tuskExtinct pachyderm's elongated tooth
- ivory tusksElephant or walrus teeth
- walrus tusksArctic pinniped's elongated canines
- boar tusksWild swine's protruding teeth