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# tusked

«tusked» in Mova's school dictionary: **having tusks: long, pointed teeth that stick out of the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (tusked)

### meaning for a pupil

Tusked means having tusks: long, pointed teeth that stick out of the mouth, like those of an elephant, walrus, wild boar or narwhal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons and nature books, «tusked» describes animals; tusks are used for digging, fighting, lifting and showing off. In stories and fantasy, tusked monsters and beasts sound fierce. Phrases: «a tusked boar», «tusked mammals», «long-tusked».

### examples

- The tusked walrus pulled itself onto the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/#x1)
- A tusked wild boar burst out of the bushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/#x2)
- Mammoths were huge tusked animals of the Ice Age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/#x3)
- The narwhal is a tusked whale with one long spiral tooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/#x4)
- In the story, the tusked troll guarded the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/#x5)
- Elephants are the best-known tusked animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/#x6)

### note

Adjective made from the noun «tusk» + «-ed». One syllable: «tuskt». Not all elephants are tusked: many female Asian elephants have no tusks. Tusks are teeth, not horns.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tusked» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tusked/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.