Hebrew Meaning of ivory

שנהב

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Definitions and Meaning of ivory in English

Wordnet

ivory (n)

a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

a shade of white the color of bleached bones

Webster

ivory (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.

The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.

Any carving executed in ivory.

Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.

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שנהב

a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses, a shade of white the color of bleached bonesThe hard, white, opaq

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ivories => שנהב, ivoride => שנהב, ivor armstrong richards => אייבור ארמסטרונג ריצ'רדס, ivies => קיסוס, ivied => מכוסה קיסוס,