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What is the noun for tusk?

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tusk
  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. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  3. A tusk shell.
  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.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The elephant's massive tusk gleamed in the sunlight.”
tusky
  1. (dialect, Yorkshire) rhubarb, sticks from that vegetable
tusk
  1. A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The elephant's massive tusk gleamed in the sunlight.”
tusking
  1. (carpentry) A tusk (projecting member).
tusklessness
  1. Absence of tusks.
tuskings
  1. plural of tusking
tusks
  1. plural of tusk
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These masks combine avian and marine animal characteristics with the tusks and horns of land animals.”
      “He knew that because it was in the shape of an arch formed by elephant tusks.”
      “The tusks on the barrs that I have seen are very thick and seem to hold up fine with the whetters intact.”
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