Ivory



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 象牙, 长牙
• ［英］ n. 象牙, 长牙 ( the tusks of elephants, walruses, etc)

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural -ries)

• Etymology: Middle English ivorie, from Anglo-French ivoire, ivurie, from Latin eboreus of ivory, from ebor-, ebur ivory, from Egyptian ?b, ?bw elephant, ivory
• Date: 13th century
• 1.
  • a. the hard creamy-white modified dentine that composes the tusks of a tusked mammal (as an elephant, walrus, or narwhal)
  • b. a tusk that yields ivory
• 2. a variable color averaging a pale yellow
• 3. slang tooth
• 4. something (as a piano key) made of ivory or of a similar substance
• ? ivory adjective

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