ivory的意思|ivory的解释-里氏词典

ivory ['aɪvərɪ]

n. 象牙, 乳白色

a. 象牙制的, 乳白色的

[医] 牙[本]质, 象牙

ivory

[ noun ]

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

<noun.substance>

a shade of white the color of bleached bones

<noun.attribute>

Ivory \I"vo*ry\ ([imac]"v[-o]*r[y^]), n.; pl. {Ivories}. [OE.
ivori, F. ivoire, fr. L. eboreus made of ivory, fr. ebur,
eboris, ivory, cf. Skr. ibha elephant. Cf. {Eburnean}.]
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
arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure.
It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or
utility.

Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the
substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but
also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and
walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.

2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.

3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett.

4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang]

{Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n.

{Ivory gull} (Zo["o]l.), a white Arctic gull ({Larus
eburneus}).

{Ivory nut} (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the
{Phytephas macroarpa}, often as large as a hen's egg. When
young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness
into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance,
resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence
it is called {vegetable ivory}. It is wrought into various
articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in
New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the {Phytephas
microarpa}. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso
nuts.

{Ivory palm} (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts.

{Ivory shell} (Zo["o]l.), any species of {Eburna}, a genus of
marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually
white with red or brown spots.

{Vegetable ivory}, the meat of the ivory nut. See {Ivory nut}
(above).

It was originally suspected that the attackers were ivory poachers.
"When I'm in the boondocks on institute business, local CPAs often ask me, 'What do you institute guys in your ivory tower in New York really know about our small-town problems?'"
In the last 12 months it earned about $600,000 in legal ivory sales.
The world's biggest consumer of ivory, Japan, bowed to international public opinion and announced at the end of October it would respect the ban.
And can they be maintained? Evidence derived from the ivory trade debate suggests that the ban is valuable as a source of publicity and has helped to reduce consumer demand for ivory products.
And can they be maintained? Evidence derived from the ivory trade debate suggests that the ban is valuable as a source of publicity and has helped to reduce consumer demand for ivory products.
According to East African conservationists, the United Arab Emirates has become the major distributing center for illegal elephant ivory.
The women had been buried with gold and silver jewelry, bronze and bone artifacts, containers of wine with small cups inside and cylindrical ivory cosmetic boxes.
A 10-foot long ivory tusk believed to be the world's largest has been stolen from a Zairean national park, a police source said today.
Japan and Singapore, which had been mainstays of the ivory trade, have so far said they are ready to go along with the ban, Ms. West reported.
The ivory burned Tuesday represented four years' worth of tusks confiscated from poachers.
The haul is the second largest found in Japan since a 1989 ban on the ivory trade, and follows the discovery of an 800kg shipment of tusks last April.
"Experts have predicted that the African elephant may become virtually extinct in as little as 10 years unless ivory poaching is stopped," the Humane Society of the United States said in a statement.
"You can sit in your ivory tower and dictate what should be true, but when you are out there in the trenches, you have to recognize reality," says Richard Kneipper, a Dallas thrift attorney.
Susan Lieberman, associate director of wildlife and environment for the Humane Society of America, said U.S. leadership in ending the worldwide ivory trade "is critical" to protecting the African elephant.
Equally pleasant will be the shopping bargains you'll encounter, such as jade in msny colors, ivory both old and new, batik and beautifully delicate cloissone.
Kenya has joined a growing list of countries that support a worldwide ban on the ivory trade.
The back of one artifact, a statue of a Japanese warrior-god brandishing a spear, opens to reveal an ivory and gold crucifix. Other statues have false bottoms, with crosses and icons inside.
"The whole idea is that there is no legal ivory," says Suzie Watts of the Environmental Investigation Agency, which tracks ivory racketeers from an office in London.
"The whole idea is that there is no legal ivory," says Suzie Watts of the Environmental Investigation Agency, which tracks ivory racketeers from an office in London.
Hong Kong and Japan are the world's largest consumers of ivory, along with the United States, which is considering legislation that would stop almost all ivory imports.
Hong Kong and Japan are the world's largest consumers of ivory, along with the United States, which is considering legislation that would stop almost all ivory imports.
Mr. Boughton attacks workload limits as the creation of physicians who "sit up in their ivory tower with a bottle of wine" and issue pronouncements.
The dilemma was clearly illustrated last month when the Kenyan government, although it needs all the foreign currency it can get, nevertheless torched $3 million worth of elephant tusks confiscated from ivory poachers over the past several years.
Canada will ban ivory imports from Africa to help protect elephants which are being slaughtered for their tusks at a rate of 70,000 a year, the federal government said Thursday.
But there are a few ivory traders who reputedly are major figures in the poaching business.
The EEC, Japan and the United States consume up to 75 percent of the ivory in world markets.
An international conference set for October could lead to a world-wide ban on ivory trade.
"I hope our action will help persuade others to appreciate the urgent need to take drastic steps to halt the wanton slaughter of elephants by declining to trade in ivory and its products both within Africa and beyond," Moi said.
A tribunal of Cuba's highest-ranking military officers recommended early today that a highly-decorated general be court-martialed for allegedly organizing rings that trafficked in cocaine, ivory and diamonds.

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