tusks

英 [tʌsks]

美 [tʌsks]

n.  (象和某些其他动物的)长牙
tusk的复数

柯林斯词典

• (象、野猪、海象等的) 长牙
  Thetusksof an elephant, wild boar, or walrus are its two very long, curved, pointed teeth.

双语例句

• Without hesitation, the elephant king offered what was left of his tusks.
  象王没有丝毫犹豫就献出了自己余下的象牙。
• The curved tusks of a walrus.
  海象的弧形长牙。
• Historians have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of mammoths.
  长期以来，历史学家们对刻划在墙壁上，骨头上和古代长毛象象牙上的点，线和符号感到迷惑不解。
• Ivory is the hard white material that forms an elephant's two long teeth, or tusks.
  象牙是一种很难找的白色材料，它们来自象的两个长牙。
• A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
  一种坚硬而光滑的乳白色牙质，构成大象和海象的大部分长牙。
• Either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber.
  两种大型北方哺乳动物之一，有尖牙，厚厚的鲸脂外面有粗糙的硬皮。
• It was about the same size as the woolly mammoth but had straight tusks and less hair.
  它的个儿和毛象差不多，但是，它的象牙是直的，毛也要少些。
• Elephant tusks, monkey tails, and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.
  象牙、猴尾巴、盐等在非洲部分地区也充当过货币。
• So let me sharpen my tusks while I can.
  所以我得一有时间就磨我的牙齿。
• Elephant tusks, monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of Africa.
  非洲的一些地区则使用象牙、猴尾和盐。