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tusk

noun as in large tooth

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They might paint an elephant tusk black, or try to make pangolin scales look like candy or chocolate.

In 2020, a group of explorers looking for mammoth tusks in eastern Siberia made a surprising discovery – the mummy of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten.

African elephants face threats from poachers, with thousands of them illegally killed each year for their tusks.

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Mammoth teeth and tusks are among the items discovered on a new dig at a site that inspired a Sir David Attenborough documentary.

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They also have found small pieces of mastodon tusk, but nothing this big and intact.

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

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