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tusk

noun as in large tooth

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The elephant that was given the beer is big in size, with long tusks - one in particular is distinctive as it is damaged.

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Archaeologists say it was fashioned from a mammoth's tusk with an astonishing level of skill.

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And they have tiny, mostly useless little eyes, no ears, and a pair of huge incisors like a mastodon's tusks.

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They include figurines, tusks, sculptures of Benin's rulers, and an ivory mask.

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Poaching animals, collecting their skins, horns, tusks, or other body parts, and selling them is a serious threat to many endangered animals, and even some kinds of plants.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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