Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Elephant-tusk   Listen
noun
elephant-tusk  n.  An annual of the southern U.S. and Mexico (Proboscidea louisianica) having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak.
Synonyms: common unicorn plant, devil's claw, common devil's claw, proboscis flower, ram's horn, Proboscidea louisianica.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Elephant-tusk" Quotes from Famous Books



... the morning, while the thick white mist is still hanging athwart the forest, a drummer is kicked out of bed by a white foot and bidden to sound "Reveille." Then there is a din of elephant-tusk horns and the clatter of the elephant-hide drums. The camp is astir, and it all seems as if the men are as smart and as disciplined as their brother warriors in Aldershot or Shorncliffe. But the negroes ...
— The Story of Baden-Powell - 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' • Harold Begbie


Words linked to "Elephant-tusk" :   herb, Proboscidea, genus Proboscidea, Proboscidea louisianica, devil's claw, common unicorn plant


Copyright © 2024 Diccionario ingles.com