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tusk meaning in Kannada

ದಂತ danta

/ˈtʌsk/

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Northern England/ˈtʊsk/

tusk in Kannada: ದಂತ (danta). In English, tusk means 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.

Kannada words for tusk

tusk
ದಂತ danta

English meaning of tusk

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  3. noun A tusk shell.
  4. noun A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.

Full definition of tusk

tusk in a sentence

  • Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.

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Questions about tusk in Kannada

What is the meaning of tusk in Kannada?
Tusk in Kannada is ದಂತ (danta).
tusk ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅರ್ಥ ಏನು?
Tusk: ದಂತ (danta).
What does tusk mean in English?
Tusk means 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.

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Kannada words from Wiktionary's Kannada entries whose English meaning is “tusk”: ದಂತ. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: tusk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Kannada words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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