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Definition of Ivory
1. Noun. A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.
Substance meronyms: Tusk
Generic synonyms: Dentin, Dentine
Derivative terms: Tusk, Tusk
2. Noun. A shade of white the color of bleached bones.
Definition of Ivory
1. n. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
Definition of Ivory
1. Noun. The hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals. ¹
2. Noun. A creamy white colour, the colour of ivory. ¹
3. Noun. Something made from or resembling ivory. ¹
4. Noun. (context: collective singular or in plural) The teeth. ¹
5. Noun. (context: collective singular or in plural) The keys of a piano. ¹
6. Noun. (slang) A white person ¹
7. Adjective. Made of ivory. ¹
8. Adjective. Resembling or having the colour of ivory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ivory
1. a hard white substance found in elephant tusks [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Ivory
1.
1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterised by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.
2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ivory
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