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ivory
ivory is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
- 3noun
Any carving executed in ivory.
- 4noun
Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
- 5noun
a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- 6noun
a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
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