Ivory
Ivory İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Ivory anlamları
- (noun) Any carving executed in ivory.
- (noun) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
- (noun) The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
- (noun) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
Ivory tanım:
Kelime: ivo·ry
Söyleniş: 'Iv-rE, 'I-v&-rE
İşlev: noun
Türleri: plural -ries
Kökeni: Middle English ivorie, from Old French ivoire, from Latin eboreus of ivory, from ebor-, ebur ivory, from Egyptian commacolon b, commacolon bw elephant, ivory
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