tusk
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
Types & categories
- dentine hypernym
Parts & wholes
- tusk substance holonym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
the rhino horned the explorer
Types & categories
- pierce hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
Types & categories
- tooth hypernym
Parts & wholes
- tusker part holonym
- Sus scrofa part holonym
- elephant part holonym
- tusk substance meronym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
remove the tusks of animals
tusk an elephant
Types & categories
- remove hypernym
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | detusk |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | tusk |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | dentine |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tusk |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tusk |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pierce |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | detusk |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | horn |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tusked |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | tusker |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | Sus scrofa |
| 3 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | elephant |
| 3 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | tusk |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | tooth |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | tusk |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | tusk |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | remove |