tusker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tusker
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A Kenyan elephant, thought to have been Africa's largest female tusker, has died of old age, wildlife officials have said.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2022
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
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
It was a party chasing a fine young tusker.
From The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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