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ˈænt lərantler

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. antlernoun

    deciduous horn of a member of the deer family

Wiktionary

  1. antlernoun

    a branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)

    While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.

  2. Etymology: From auntelere, hauntelere, from antoillier, of unknown origin. The attempted explanation deriving from an unattested *, seems doubtful, as no other Romance language has a similar word of such formation.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Antlernoun

    Properly the first branches of a stag’s horns; but, popularly and generally, any of his branches.

    Etymology: andouillier, Fr.

    Grown old, they grow less branched, and first lose their brow antlers, or lowest furcations next to the head. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 9.

    A well grown stag, whose antlers rise
    High o’er his front, his beams invade the skies. Dryden.

    Bright Diana
    Brought hunted wild goats heads, and branching antlers
    Of stags, the fruit and honour of her toil. Matthew Prior.

Wikipedia

  1. Antler

    Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally found only on males, with the exception of reindeer/caribou. Antlers are shed and regrown each year and function primarily as objects of sexual attraction and as weapons. In contrast to antlers, horns—found on pronghorns and bovids, such as sheep, goats, bison and cattle—are two-part structures that usually do not shed. A horn's interior of bone is covered by an exterior sheath made of keratin (the same material as human fingernails and toenails).

ChatGPT

  1. antler

    An antler is a pair of bony, branched structures that grow from the head of a male deer and some related species of animals. They are usually shed and regrown annually and are primarily used by males for fighting and displaying to attract a mate during the mating season. Each branch of the antler is called a tine. In some species, like the caribou, both males and females grow antlers.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Antlernoun

    the entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag

  2. Etymology: [OE. auntelere, OF. antoillier, andoiller, endouiller, fr. F. andouiller, fr. an assumed LL. antocularis, fr. L. ante before + oculus eye. See Ocular.]

Wikidata

  1. Antler

    Antlers are the usually large, branching bony appendages on the heads of males of most deer species.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Antler

    ant′lėr, n. a bony outgrowth from the frontal bones of deer—restricted to males, except in the reindeer: branch of a stag's horn.—adj. Ant′lered. [O. Fr. antoillier—Late L. ant(e)ocular-em (ramum), the branch of a stag's horn in front of the eyes.]

Editors Contribution

  1. antler

    A structure on the head of specific species of deer.

    Deer have antlers on the top of their head.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 12, 2017  

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  1. learnt

  2. rental

  3. ternal

  4. altern

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of antler in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of antler in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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  1. Greg Hare:

    While we were there we thought we would look around and within five minutes Senior Project Archaeologist Christian Thomas found this massive barbed antler point sticking out of the ice patch.

  2. Yu Qiangmin:

    At the moment the real money-spinners are deer antler and ginseng.

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