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

Definitions

1. 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.
2. noun. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
3. noun. Any carving executed in ivory.
4. noun. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
5. noun. a shade of white the color of bleached bones

   Synonyms: bone, pearl

6. noun. a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

   Synonyms: tusk

Synonyms

bone, pearl, tusk

Common word forms

ivoried, ivorier, ivories, ivoriest

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