a. [f. TUSK sb.1 + -LESS.] Having no tusks.
1859. Tennent, Ceylon, II. VIII. i. 281. The tuskless elephant.
1879. Pryer, Lett., 22 Nov., in J. Hatton, New Ceylon, iii. (1881), 72. Two of the elephants (tuskless) ran off, but the third faced about.
1895. Chamb. Jrnl., XII. 726/2. Apparently it is the male elephant that is usually found tuskless in Ceylon.
1907. Spectator, 5 Jan., 11/1. Tuskless swine will grout up ground, if it be not too hard, almost as fast as the tusked boar.
