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The correct spelling is tusks. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar. For example: "Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade."

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

Definition

noun

  1. 1.One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
  2. 2.A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  3. 3.A tusk shell.
  4. 4.A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
  5. 5.A sharp point.

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