Ivory

['aɪv(ə)rɪ] or ['aɪvəri]

解释:

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

整理:罗伯塔--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

校对:莫利

解释:

n. the hard white substance composing the tusks of the elephant and of the sea-horse.—adj. made of or resembling ivory.—adj. I′voried made like ivory: furnished with teeth.—ns. I′vory-black a black powder originally made from burnt ivory but now from bone; I′vory-nut the nut of a species of palm containing a substance like ivory; I′vory-palm the tree which bears the ivory-nut; I′vory-por′celain a fine ware with an ivory-white glaze.—Show one's ivories to show the teeth.

录入:特伦特

娱乐性解释:

To dream of ivory, is favorable to the fortune of the dreamer. To see huge pieces of ivory being carried, denotes financial success and pleasures unalloyed.

亚伦编辑

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校对:迈拉

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