Word Meaning

ivory definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
n. Any carving executed in ivory.
n. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.

Crossword clues for ivory

- Colour of survivor yanked from the depths
- Creamy white
- Creamy-white colour
- Creamy-white shade
- Elephant poacher’s cache
- Elephant tusk
- Mr Novello? Why creamy white?
- Piano key
- Piano key material
- Tusk material
- Variety of dentine in tusks
- Whitish
- Yellowish-white colour