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The phrase "a tusk" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a long, pointed tooth that protrudes from the mouth of certain animals, such as elephants or walruses.
Example: "The elephant raised its head proudly, showcasing its impressive tusk as it walked through the savannah."
Alternatives: "one tusk" or "a long tusk".
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On the floor, a stone elephant missing a tusk stands guard.
"You find a tooth here, maybe a tusk there," he said.
I saw a crocodile skin handbag hanging from a tusk on one of the pyres.
"I turned around and her tusks were right there, so I grabbed a tusk," he said.
The ivory prong that precedes the narwhal whale is a tusk.
As ancient as the trumpet is the natural horn, which was derived from an animal horn or a tusk.
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A whale skeleton, a mammoth tusk, a mermaid.
Except I went to a shop and there was a huge tusk of a mammoth that was for sale.
The freewheeling story involves a jawbreaker version of the dessert, a broken tusk and a tooth that can write.
The narwhal, or narwhale (Monodon monoceros), is a medium-sized toothed whale and possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth.
The giant joint is shaped like an elephant tusk, a nod to the charity it was auctioned off for: the African Wildlife Foundation.
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