ivory 音標拼音: ['ɑɪvɚi] ['ɑɪvri]
n . 象牙,乳白色
a . 象牙制的,乳白色的
象牙,乳白色象牙制的,乳白色的
ivory n 1 :
a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses [
synonym : {
ivory }, {
tusk }]
2 :
a shade of white the color of bleached bones [
synonym : {
bone },
{
ivory }, {
pearl }, {
off -
white }]
Ivory \
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n .;
pl . {
Ivories }. [
OE .
ivori ,
F .
ivoire ,
fr .
L .
eboreus made of ivory ,
fr .
ebur ,
eboris ,
ivory ,
cf .
Skr .
ibha elephant .
Cf . {
Eburnean }.]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant ,
but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus ,
the hornlike tusk of the narwhal ,
etc .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
The tusks themselves of the elephant ,
etc .
[
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3 .
Any carving executed in ivory . --
Mollett .
[
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4 .
pl .
Teeth ;
as ,
to show one '
s ivories . [
Slang ]
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1913 Webster ]
{
Ivory black }.
See under {
Black },
n .
{
Ivory gull } (
Zool .),
a white Arctic gull ({
Larus eburneus }).
{
Ivory nut } (
Bot .),
the nut of a species of palm ,
the {
Phytephas macroarpa },
often as large as a hen '
s egg .
When young the seed contains a fluid ,
which gradually hardness into a whitish ,
close -
grained ,
albuminous substance ,
resembling the finest ivory in texture and color ,
whence it is called {
vegetable ivory }.
It is wrought into various articles ,
as buttons ,
chessmen ,
etc .
The palm is found in New Grenada .
A smaller kind is the fruit of the {
Phytephas microarpa }.
The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso nuts .
{
Ivory palm } (
Bot .),
the palm tree which produces ivory nuts .
{
Ivory shell } (
Zool .),
any species of {
Eburna },
a genus of marine gastropod shells ,
having a smooth surface ,
usually white with red or brown spots .
{
Vegetable ivory },
the meat of the ivory nut .
See {
Ivory nut }
(
above ).
[
1913 Webster ]
ivorybill 53 Moby Thesaurus words for "
ivory ":
alabaster ,
alabastrine ,
albescent ,
billiard table ,
bones ,
bowling alley ,
bowling green ,
chalk ,
cream ,
creamy ,
cubes ,
dice ,
driven snow ,
dun -
white ,
eggshell ,
fair ,
flat ,
fleece ,
flour ,
foam ,
glass ,
glaucescent ,
glaucous ,
gray -
white ,
ice ,
ivory -
white ,
level ,
light ,
lily ,
lint -
white ,
maggot ,
mahogany ,
marble ,
milk ,
off -
white ,
pale ,
paper ,
pearl ,
pearly ,
pearly -
white ,
plane ,
satin ,
sheet ,
silk ,
silver ,
slide ,
smooth ,
snow ,
swan ,
tennis court ,
velvet ,
whitish ,
whity
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