tusk : Idioms & Phrases

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Elephant's tusk

  • (Zoöl.), the tooth shell. See Dentalium.
Webster 1913

elephant-tusk

  • noun annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak
    common unicorn plant; ram's horn; Proboscidea louisianica; devil's claw; common devil's claw; proboscis flower.
WordNet

tusk shell

  • noun any of various seashore mollusks having a tapering tubular shell open at each end and a foot pointed like a spade for burrowing
    tooth shell.
WordNet

tusk-shell

Tusk"-shell` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) See 2d Tusk, n., 2.
Webster 1913