Ī′vo-ry, n.

n. [Fr. ivoire, Pr. evori, avori, It. avorio, from Lat. eboreus, made of ivory, from ebur, eboris, ivory, from O. Egypt. ebar, elephant, Ir. boir, Skr. ibha].

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 arrangements of the tubes, as also by their double flexure.
2. The tusks themselves of the elephant.
3. Any white organic structure resembling ivory, obtained from the tusks of the walrus, the narwhal, and the like.
4. (pl.) Teeth generally; as, to show one’s ivories. [Low.]

Vegetable ivory. See IVORY-NUT.