tusks
长牙,獠牙,长须,獠牙的
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Definitions
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- : a tooth developed to great length, usually one of a pair, as in the elephant, walrus, and wild boar, but singly in the narwhal.
- : a long, pointed, or protruding tooth.
- : a projection resembling the tusk of an animal.
- : Also called gain. Carpentry. a diagonally cut shoulder at the end of a timber for strengthening a tenon.
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- : to dig up or tear off with the tusks.
- : to gore with a tusk.
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- : to dig up or thrust at the ground with the tusks.
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Special banks accept pig tusks, which are considered sacred in the region and have been used as ceremonial currency since ancient times.
Poaching was also ruled out, because the elephants’ bodies were intact with their tusks.
Both Botswana and Zimbabwe receive most of their hunting tourists from the US, who pay for the privilege to take their tusks home as trophies.
In the film world, it was really Kevin Smith who brought Osment back into the fold with Tusk.
Johnny Depp has a pretty sizeable role in Tusk as the Montreal private eye Guy LaPointe.
The first sequence of the show was set to "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac.
As a patron of Tusk Trust, a conservation charity, Williamtravelled to Botswana in 2010 to raise awareness of the issue.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is making his first visit to Canada this week.
Some of them are found to have but one tusk, the other being torn out in fighting with each other, or falling out through age.
As for his face, all tusk and jaw and no brow, where had Parr gotten such an idea of it?
He held in his hand a curious wooden spear with a loose barb tipped with the tusk of a walrus.
I was therefore very desirous of adding the tusk of one of these wild boars to my trophies of the chase.
The three elephants killed were all bulls, that of Mr. Wallace having only one tusk.