Mandarin Tusk

Tusk

Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. Most commonly known as canine teeth, as with narwhals, chevrotains, musk deer, water deer, muntjac, pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses and walruses, or, in the case of elephants and hyrax, elongated incisors. Tusks share common features such as extra-oral position, growth pattern, composition and structure, and lack of contribution to ingestion. In most tusked species, both the males and the females have tusks, although males' are usually larger.

mandarin

Noun

1. A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

Adjective

1. Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

tusk

Noun

1. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
2. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.

Verb

1. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
2. To gore with the tusks.