TUSKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tusker mean? 

• TUSKER (noun)
  The noun TUSKER has 1 sense:

1. any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)

  Familiarity information: TUSKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUSKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tusker" is a kind of...):

mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)

Meronyms (parts of "tusker"):

tusk (a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog)