## Meanings
1. The hard, smooth, white substance that forms the tusks of elephants
2. A creamy white colour, like that of bleached bone
3. Having the creamy white colour of ivory

## Examples
- The piano keys were once made of ivory.
- The walls were painted a soft ivory.
- She wore an ivory dress to the wedding.

## Derived Forms
- ivoride
- ivoried
- ivorine
- ivoriness
- ivorist
- ivoroid
- ivory-bill
- ivory-pounder
- ivory-thumper
- ivory-white
- ivorybill
- ivorylike

## Related Forms
- chryselephantine
- eburnation
- galalith
- odontolite
- scrimshaw
- whalebone

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *leb-
- Root: yvory
- Root: ivurie
- Root: eboreus
- Root: yb
- Root: ꜣbw

## Etymology
From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic Egyptian yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).

## AI Etymology
Ivory comes from Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic Egyptian yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *leb-. Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).

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