noun
- long, pointed teeth that stick out from the mouth of certain animals
Usage: plural of tusk
Examples
- The elephant’s tusks were made of ivory.
- Walruses use their tusks to pull themselves onto ice.
- The mammoth’s curved tusks were enormous.
- Poachers killed the rhino for its tusks.
- Wild boars have sharp tusks for defense.
- The narwhal’s tusk can grow up to ten feet long.