tusker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tusker
Example Sentences
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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
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
Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with his little pig's eyes glowing like hot coals, was just lifting himself out of the misty river.
From The jungle book by Kipling, Rudyard
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