By seeing an elephant's tusk you know it is larger than a bull; by seeing a tiger's tail you know it is larger than a fox; by seeing one thing, you know many of them.
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Tusk
//ˈtʌsk//
Synonyms for "tusk" (42 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (21)
Related word relations
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More general
11 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
4 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
3 entriesrelated to
78 entriesShowing 16 of 78 words.
Translations
102 translations across 66 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- στόρθυγξ noun (pointed tooth)
Arabic
2 entries- ناب noun (pointed tooth)
- نَاب noun (pointed tooth)
Armenian
1 entries- ժանիք noun (pointed tooth)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- xillə noun (pointed tooth)
Belarusian
1 entries- бі́вень noun (pointed tooth)
Bengali
1 entries- গজদন্ত noun (pointed tooth)
Bulgarian
2 entries- би́вен noun (pointed tooth)
- би́вник noun (pointed tooth)
Burmese
2 entries- စွယ် noun (pointed tooth)
- ဆင်စွယ် noun (pointed tooth)
Catalan
1 entries- ullal noun (pointed tooth)
Chichewa
1 entries- mnyanga noun (pointed tooth)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 牙 noun (pointed tooth)
- 長牙 /长牙 noun (pointed tooth)
Czech
1 entries- kel noun (pointed tooth)
Danish
1 entries- stødtand noun (pointed tooth)
Dupaningan Agta
1 entries- paseng noun (pointed tooth)
Dutch
2 entries- slagtand noun (pointed tooth)
- stoottand noun (pointed tooth)
Egyptian
1 entries- F18:Z1 noun (pointed tooth)
Esperanto
3 entries- dentego noun (pointed tooth)
- pikdento noun (pointed tooth)
- tusko noun (pointed tooth)
Estonian
1 entries- kihv noun (pointed tooth)
Finnish
1 entries- syöksyhammas noun (pointed tooth)
French
2 entries- dague noun (pointed tooth)
- défense noun (pointed tooth)
Galician
4 entries- cabeiro noun (pointed tooth)
- cairo noun (pointed tooth)
- dentequeiro noun (pointed tooth)
- queiro noun (pointed tooth)
German
2 entries- Hauer noun (pointed tooth)
- Stoßzahn noun (pointed tooth)
Greek
1 entries- χαυλιόδοντας noun (pointed tooth)
Hebrew
2 entries- חָט noun (pointed tooth)
- חטים noun (pointed tooth)
Hindi
2 entries- खाँग noun (pointed tooth)
- गजदंत noun (pointed tooth)
Hungarian
1 entries- agyar noun (pointed tooth)
Irish
1 entries- starrfhiacail noun (pointed tooth)
Italian
1 entries- zanna noun (pointed tooth)
Japanese
2 entries- 牙 noun (pointed tooth)
- 象牙 noun (pointed tooth)
Khmer
4 entries- ខ្នាយ noun (pointed tooth)
- ទន្ត noun (pointed tooth)
- ទាឋា noun (pointed tooth)
- ភ្លុក noun (pointed tooth)
Korean
2 entries- 송곳니 noun (pointed tooth)
- 엄니 noun (pointed tooth)
Lao
4 entries- ງາ noun (pointed tooth)
- ທັນຕາ noun (pointed tooth)
- ແງ noun (pointed tooth)
- ໜາຍ noun (pointed tooth)
Macedonian
1 entries- бивна noun (pointed tooth)
Malay
2 entries- gading noun (pointed tooth)
- taring noun (pointed tooth)
Malayalam
2 entries- കൊമ്പ് noun (pointed tooth)
- തേറ്റ noun (pointed tooth)
Mongolian
1 entries- соёо noun (pointed tooth)
Māori
1 entries- reiputa noun (pointed tooth)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- støttann noun (pointed tooth)
- støyttann noun (pointed tooth)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- støyttann noun (pointed tooth)
Occitan
1 entries- ulhal noun (pointed tooth)
Old English
1 entries- tūsc noun (pointed tooth)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آزو noun (pointed tooth)
Persian
1 entries- یشک noun (pointed tooth)
Polish
2 entries- cios noun (pointed tooth)
- kieł noun (pointed tooth)
Portuguese
1 entries- presa noun (pointed tooth)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਡੰਦ noun (pointed tooth)
Romanian
2 entries- colț noun (pointed tooth)
- fildeș noun (pointed tooth)
Russian
2 entries- би́вень noun (pointed tooth)
- клык noun (pointed tooth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kljȏva noun (pointed tooth)
- кљо̑ва noun (pointed tooth)
Sicilian
3 entries- canini noun (pointed tooth)
- denti noun (pointed tooth)
- prisa noun (pointed tooth)
Slovak
1 entries- kel noun (pointed tooth)
Slovene
1 entries- okel noun (pointed tooth)
Spanish
1 entries- colmillo noun (pointed tooth)
Swahili
2 entries- pembe noun (pointed tooth)
- upamba noun (pointed tooth)
Swedish
1 entries- bete noun (pointed tooth)
Tagalog
2 entries- pangil noun (pointed tooth)
- salimao noun (pointed tooth)
Tamil
2 entries- கொம்பு noun (pointed tooth)
- தந்தம் noun (pointed tooth)
Telugu
1 entries- దంతము noun (pointed tooth)
Thai
2 entries- งา noun (pointed tooth)
- ทนต์ noun (pointed tooth)
Tibetan
1 entries- མཆེ་བ noun (pointed tooth)
Tocharian B
1 entries- ānkär noun (pointed tooth)
Ukrainian
2 entries- би́вень noun (pointed tooth)
- вістря noun (sharp point)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ngà noun (pointed tooth)
Welsh
1 entries- ysgithr noun (pointed tooth)
West-Frisian
1 entries- slachttosk noun (pointed tooth)
Yoruba
1 entries- eyín erin noun (pointed tooth)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
This is an elephant's tusk.
Source: tatoeba (1669262)
Khalid from Saudi Arabia was a friend in university, UBC. He rented an apartment near the planetarium of Vancouver, BC. He had spontaneous whims like us hiking up Black Tusk mountain with his leather shoes on, one sunny, but chilly day.
Source: tatoeba (10583131)
The Botswana Wildlife Producers Association, a group that focuses on the conservation and management of the country's wildlife, says placing electronic tracking collars on big tusk elephants could help prevent indiscriminate hunts.
Source: tatoeba (10937791)
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