1. A long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
   "The elephant's tusks were prized by ivory hunters"
    
2. A hard smooth material coloured dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants, walruses and similar animals
   "The antique chess set was carved from tusk";
   - ivory

1. Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
   "the rhino tusked the explorer";
   - horn
    
2. Remove the tusks of animals
   "tusk an elephant";
   - detusk

Derived forms: tusked, tusks, tusking

Type of: chopper [informal], dentin [N. Amer], dentine, pierce, remove, take, take away, thrust, tooth, withdraw

Part of: boar, elephant, Sus scrofa, tusker, wild boar

Encyclopedia: Tusk