How many syllables in ivory?

There are 3 syllables in the word ivory.

How to pronounce ivory:

ivory (noun):: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses.; the hard creamy-white modified dentine that composes the tusks of a tusked mammal (such as an elephant, walrus, or narwhal)

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