tusker

American  

[tuhs-ker] / ˈtʌs kər /

noun

1. an animal with tusks, as an elephant or a wild boar.

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tusker British  

/ ˈtʌskə /

noun

1. any animal with prominent tusks, esp a wild boar or elephant

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Etymology

Origin of tusker

First recorded in 1855–60; tusk + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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tusker

"We can't say the tusker won't return to Kerala."

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

The king of the group, a magnificent tusker, pushed the logs with his snout and tusks, while the others pulled them with chains.

From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Clarence Hamilton Poe

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