1. a long, pointed tooth that extends outside the mouth of certain animals

1. to dig or attack with tusks

Examples

• The elephant’s ivory tusks were enormous.
• Walruses use their tusks to haul themselves onto ice.
• The wild boar had sharp, curved tusks.
• Poachers killed the rhino for its valuable tusk.
• The mammoth’s fossilized tusks were discovered in the ice.
• The warthog tusked the ground looking for roots.
• Male narwhals have a single spiral tusk.