tusk

英 [tʌsk]

美 [tʌsk]

n.  (象和某些其他动物的)长牙

复数：tusks　过去式：tusked　第三人称单数：tusks　现在分词：tusking　过去分词：tusked　

GRE

BNC.21007 / COCA.16945

牛津词典

noun

• （象和某些其他动物的）长牙
  either of the long curved teeth that stick out of the mouth of elephants and some other animals

柯林斯词典

• (象、野猪、海象等的) 长牙
  Thetusksof an elephant, wild boar, or walrus are its two very long, curved, pointed teeth.

英英释义

noun

• a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging
• a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
  Synonym:ivory

verb

• remove the tusks of animals
  1. tusk an elephant
  Synonym:detusk
• stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
  1. the rhino horned the explorer
  Synonym:horn

双语例句

• An article carved or engraved from whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers.
  通常由美国捕鲸人完成的，用鲸须、鲸牙和海象胡须等雕刻出来的东西。
• Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the crash was the most tragic event of the country's post World War II history.
  唐纳德·塔斯克总理说，此次坠机事故是二战后波兰遭遇的最大悲剧。
• The old man grasped the elephant's Tusk and felt it.
  老人抓住大象的鼻子，摸了摸。
• Figurine of walrus tusk ( excl. original sculptures and statuary)
  海象长牙制小雕像（不包括雕塑和雕像原件）
• Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk.
  小型北极鲸，其雄性有扭曲的长尖牙。
• Elephants wear the tusk down faster than they can grow it.
  象牙磨损的速度快于生长的速度。
• Plunge or bury in flesh, as of a knife, sword, or tusk.
  陷入或者埋葬在肉中，关于刀，剑或者尖牙。
• The street value of elephant tusk is believed to exceed thousands of dollars per kilo and officials have acknowledged the role of organised crime in the poaching crisis.
  象牙的市场价格每公斤超过数千美元。官方承认在偷猎危机中组织了犯罪活动。
• To gore or dig with the tusks or a tusk.
  用长牙挖掘或刺。
• Other mammals are believed to contribute to the myth of the unicorn, including the narwhal, a whale with a long, spiraling tusk.
  据说包括具有盘旋长牙的独角鲸等其它的哺乳动物和独角兽之说也有关。