tusk
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal…One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
» Elephant tusks are made out of ivory.
Die Stoßzähne eines Elefanten bestehen aus Elfenbein.
Слоновьи бивни сделаны из слоновой кости.
Значение
значений: 7One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
Stoßzahn, Hauer
би́веньbívenʹ, клык
би́веньbývenʹ
A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
A tusk shell.
A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
A sharp point.
вістряvistrja
The share of a plough.
An edible fish, Brosme brosme.
- a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
- a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
Примеры
предложений: 24Elephant tusks are made out of ivory.
Слоновьи бивни сделаны из слоновой кости.
deDie Stoßzähne eines Elefanten bestehen aus Elfenbein.
A tusk is essentially just a giant tooth.
Бивень — это, в сущности, всего лишь огромный зуб.
Tens of thousands of elephants are killed every year for their ivory tusks.
Ежегодно десятки тысяч слонов убивают ради их бивней.
deJedes Jahr werden Zehntausende Elefanten ihrer Stoßzähne aus Elfenbein wegen erlegt.
Narwhals have long tusks.
У нарвалов длинные бивни.
This is an elephant's tusk.
Это бивень слона.
deDies ist der Stoßzahn eines Elefanten.
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 2
По значениям 1
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Происхождение
From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūsc, tūx (“canine tooth, tusFrom Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūsc, tūx (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.
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