n.
  - a long, pointed tooth, especially one which protrudes from the closed mouth, as in the elephant, walrus, or wild boar.
 - a long, tapering object or projection.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - tusked adj.
  - tusky adj. (literary).
 
   
  Etymology
  OE tux, var. of tusc (cf. tush2).