tusk

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtʌsk/

名詞

One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.

日本語の意味

牙

英語の意味

One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.

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The elephant used its tusk to dig for water during the drought.

その象は干ばつのとき、水を掘るために長い象牙を使った。

詳細

意味（1）

One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.

Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.

詳細

意味（2）

A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.

意味（3）

A tusk shell.

意味（4）

(carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.

意味（5）

A sharp point.

意味（6）

The share of a plough.

tusks （ plural ）