English-Portuguese translations for tusk

presaAbater elefantes para vender as presas de marfim ao Japão e anotar no papel as receitas da protecção dos animais é uma lógica perversa, que para além do mais não funciona. Shooting elephants in order to sell their tusks to Japan and then giving the proceeds away - at least on paper - to protect wild animals is a perverse kind of logic.

One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar
A small projection on a tenon
A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called ''teeth''
The share of a plough
To dig up using a tusk, as boars do
To bare or gnash the teeth
A fish, the torsk (

Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the backbone of the legal ivory trade.

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