tusklessadj.
/ˈtʌsklɪs/ Having no tusks.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [adjective] > relating to elephants > having or not having parts
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > [adjective] > of or relating to or having the nature of a swine > having certain size or parts
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1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. viii. i. 281 The tuskless elephant.
1879 Pryer Let. 22 Nov. in J. Hatton New Ceylon (1881) iii. 72 Two of the elephants (tuskless) ran off, but the third faced about.
1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 726/2 Apparently it is the male elephant that is usually found tuskless in Ceylon.
1907 Spectator 5 Jan. 11/1 Tuskless swine will grout up ground, if it be not too hard, almost as fast as the tusked boar.
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