tooth vs tusk

tooth and tusk both are nouns.

tooth is not a verb while tusk is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tooth	Yes	No	No	No
tusk	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, tusk is a hyponym of tooth; that is, tusk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tooth:

tooth: hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
tusk: a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, conodont, chopper, pearly, carnassial tooth, anterior, front tooth, back tooth, posterior, malposed tooth, adult tooth, permanent tooth, baby tooth, deciduous tooth, milk tooth, primary tooth, canine, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth, bicuspid, premolar, incisor, grinder, molar.

tooth (noun)	tusk (noun)
a means of enforcement	a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell	a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
something resembling the tooth of an animal
one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

tooth (verb)	tusk (verb)
	remove the tusks of animals
	stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

Difference between tooth and tusk

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