tusk
英 [tʌsk] 美 [tʌsk]

n.

（象等动物的）长牙；獠牙；尖形物；尖头

vt.

用牙抵（或刺），用牙掘（或撕）；

adj.

有獠牙的，有长牙的；

变形

复数：tusks

英英释义

tusk[ tʌsk ]

• n.
  • a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

    同义词：ivory

  • a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
• v.
  • stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

    同义词：horn

  • remove the tusks of animals

    "tusk an elephant"

    同义词：detusk

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. A huge tusk decorated the wall of his study.
   他书房的墙上装饰着一支巨大的象牙。
2. The second blind grasped one of the elephant's tusks and felt it.
   第二个瞎子抓住了一个象牙，摸了摸它。
3. The wild boar had its tusk sunk deeply into a tree and howled desperately.
   野猪的獠牙陷在了树里，绝望地嗥叫着。

权威例句

Aggressive tusk use by the narwhal (Monodon monoceros L.)
An early Holocene narwhal tusk from the Canadian high Arctic
Tusk-bearing beaked whales from the Miocene of Peru: sexual dimorphism in fossil ziphiids?
Medical and surgical management of a fractured tusk in an African elephant
Carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of a juvenile woolly mammoth tusk: Evidence of weaning
Discriminating Proboscidean Taxa Using Features of the Schreger Pattern in Tusk Dentin
Intermediate schauder theory for second order parabolic equations iii. the tusk conditions
Dependence of mechanical properties on fibre angle in narwhal tusk, a highly oriented biological composite
Bathymetric barriers promoting genetic structure in the deepwater demersal fish tusk (Brosme brosme).
The expression of an engrailed protein during embryonic shell formation of the tusk-shell, Antalis entalis (Mollusca, Scaphopoda).