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  1. 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. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Any carving executed in ivory. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. a shade of white the color of bleached bones Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n:100 n. a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses Source: ecdict

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