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
After a large tusker was electrocuted by low-hanging power lines in December, the herd returned the following day to trample the crops where he’d been buried.
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
It was certainly a giant tusker, but it was hard to tell if this was Satao, as the face was mutilated face and the tusks gone.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2014
Good are well-tamed mules, and good are Scindian steeds of lineage famed; Good indeed the mighty tusker; best of all the man self-tamed.
From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Woodward, Frank Lee
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