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noun. a hard smooth creamy white variety of dentine that makes up a major part of the tusks of elephants, walruses, and similar animals. ( as modifier ) ivory ornaments. a tusk made of ivory. a yellowish-white colour; cream. ( as adjective ) ivory shoes. a substance resembling elephant tusk.
Reporter. July 2020. In Africa, ivory has been a status symbol because it comes from elephants, a highly respected animal, and because it is fairly easy to carve into works of art. Illustration...
Ivory is the hard, smooth, substance, composed primarily of dentin, that constitutes the tusks, or upper incisors, of elephants (family Elephantidae), including the extinct mammoths (genus Mammuthus ), as well as the elephant-like mastodons (family Mammutidae, order Proboscidea).
