(n.) 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.
(n.) The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
(n.) Any carving executed in ivory.
(n.) Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
Example Sentences:
(1) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(2) Public opposition to the ivory trade has grown, and cooperation between conservationists and local communities has had a dramatic impact.
(3) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
(4) In the present study, serum samples were obtained from 4248 individuals from six West African countries, including Senegal, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast.
(5) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(6) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(7) The Ivory Coast international Sagbo had won the penalty from which Hull scored through Robbie Brady – a decision labelled "incredibly soft" by the Norwich manager, Chris Hughton – but minutes later was sent off after he clashed with Russell Martin.
(8) He is with the Ivory Coast at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, meaning he may be unavailable until the middle of next month.
(9) For example, the DRC reported only six ivory seizures in the past two decades, yet was implicated in 396 seizures made outside of the country.
(10) Ivory epiphyses ovvurred more often in children in the lower socio-economic class and children with hemoglobin AA.
(11) He'll miss Ivory Coast's final group game against Greece.
(12) The report contains damning evidence of the potentially toxic nature of the waste Trafigura dumped in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast .
(13) In health car facilities, systems studies are commonly conducted as ivory-tower operations with minimal impact and little practical result.
(14) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(15) We’ve seen a mind-boggling 49 goals , compared with 25 at the same stage in 2010 – that's almost double, by my calculations There have been only two draws (six in 2010) A remarkable six teams have come from behind to win (Brazil, Holland, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Belgium).
(16) Their report includes the results of a survey about the sanitary protection of the children and about the respect of the ideal immunization schedule and recommended in Ivory Coast (39,9% in town and 6,2% in rural area).
(17) Consecutive man-of-the-match performances against Greece and Ivory Coast helped Colombia brush aside the lassitude that swamped the country’s World Cup preparations after injury to their talismanic striker Falcao .
(18) The analysis of these cases of elliptocytosis allow to draw the following conclusions: the frequency of the hereditary elliptocytosis varies between 0.6 to 1 per cent in Ivory Coast, the functional and structural analysis of spectrin show a high global frequency of the elliptocytosis of Model I in relation with an abnormally of alpha I domain of spectrin, all the cases detected don't give any clinical trouble.
(19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.
Tessera
Definition:
(n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transmission electron microscopy shows calcification in close association with coarse collagen fibrils on the outer side of a tessera, but such fibrils are absent from the cartilaginous matrix along the under side of tesserae.
(2) If so, the cap could be considered a thin veneer of bone atop the calcified cartilage of the body of a tessera.
(3) The outer zone of tesserae, the cap, is composed of calcified tissue which appears to be produced by perichondrial fibroblasts more directly, i.e., without first differentiating as chondroblasts.
(4) Individual tesserae develop peripherally at the boundary between cartilage and perichondrium.
(5) Calcospherites and hydroxyapatite crystals similar to those commonly seen on the surface of bone are present on the outer surface of the tessera adjacent to the perichondrium.
(6) By scanning electron microscopy it was observed that outer and inner surfaces of tesserae differ in appearance.