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Definition of Tusklike
1. resembling a tusk [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tusklike
Literary usage of Tusklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"Still more widely specialized is the dentition, which is practically abortive
except for the tusklike upper and lower canines which are covered with enamel. ..."
2. An Apology for Old Maids: And Other Essays by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1916)
"Did our ancestors, whether beasts or human progenitors of retreating skull and
tusklike teeth, breathe in its beauty and ..."
3. Over the Alleghanies and Across the Prairies: Personal Recollections of the by John Lewis Peyton (1869)
"... lengthened jaws and tusklike teeth—a miserable compound of cruelty, ferocity,
barbarity, and vindictiveness —is likely to stand long against that mighty ..."
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