tusker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tusker
Example Sentences
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Reports said locals living nearby protested its relocation, worried that the tusker could wreak havoc in their settlements.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023
“This is a big tusker, a male elephant that we’re planning to collar,” Shanmugavelu said.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 23, 2020
Satao II was believed to be around fifty years old; he was named after Kenya’s greatest tusker, Satao, who was killed by poachers in 2014.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2017
With elephant numbers in free-fall in many places, losing even one big tusker is damaging to a herd.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 17, 2015
He was a tusker of most forbidding appearance, and the instant his wicked little eyes fell upon Donalblane he bristled up and began gnashing his tusks ominously.
From Donalblane of Darien by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley
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