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Indeed exports to Europe began in the 19th Century in order to meet the demand for an ivory-like raw material.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2017

In fact, the scientific name for the six species of palm trees that produce tagua is Phytelephas, which means elephant plant, a nod to the ivory-like quality of the seeds.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2017

In Africa and South America, tribesmen have hunted it for its delectable meat�not unlike veal�as well as its fat and oil, leathery skin and ivory-like bone.

From Time Magazine Archive

He walked to the pile of bones and horns in the corner and selected two of the longest and slimmest of the ivory-like things.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various

Beside her was a young girl of seventeen years whose face of admirable correctness, soft and ivory-like, had the same expression of timid innocence as the virgins of Murillo.

From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando