Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An animal, such as a wild boar, that has tusks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wild boar with large tusks.
- noun An elephant whose tusks are grown and retained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An elephant having large tusks.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large wild boar.
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- noun An animal, such as a bull
elephant or aboar , with largetusks . - noun UK, Orkney, Shetland A tool used in
peat cutting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Closely related to the wild boar (Sus scrofa), also sometimes called a tusker, are the bearded pig (Sus barbatus) of Borneo and Malaya, the crested pig (Sus cristata) of East Asia, etc. The American humorist, Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937), scored his first great success (in 1906) with a book entitled Pigs is Pigs.
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They would consume your fallen body in a moment, and I know that a "tusker" would sever a femoral artery and dispatch a hunter or child if it felt provoked, even if that very child had hand fed it that morning.
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They would consume your fallen body in a moment, and I know that a "tusker" would sever a femoral artery and dispatch a hunter or child if it felt provoked, even if that very child had hand fed it that morning.
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Professor Romanes gives an instance of a fine 'tusker' which, when badly wounded, was promptly surrounded by his companions.
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In Ceylon, a "tusker" is a kind of spectre, to be talked of by a few who have had the good luck to see one.
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Hell hath no fury like a male elephant scorned, a team of park rangers agree as they search the jungles of southern India for a rogue 'tusker' which has killed at least 12 females which rejected him.
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It is a spot so far removed from human care that I have seen, a few yards from the tents, fresh tracks made by the wild boar as he has rooted o 'nights; and once, as I sat looking out over the water when the rest of the camp was asleep, a dark shadow passed, not fifty yards distant, going head to wind up the hill, and I knew it for "tusker" wending his way to the village gardens, where the maize was green.
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The 42-year-old Indian tusker – called Sony – died two months ago of heart failure and the plan to turn the enourmous corpse into bio diesel was agreed on after a special park task force was set up to work out how best to work out what to do with the body of the prízed symbol of peace and friendship.
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If you have one guy with binoculars, your chances of seeing a tusker are pretty limited and it will take a long time to succeed.
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If you have one guy with binoculars, your chances of seeing a tusker are pretty limited and it will take a long time to succeed.
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