Antler Definition

ăntlər
antlers
noun
The branched, annually shed, bony growth on the head of any animal of the deer family.
Webster's New World
Any branch of such a growth.
Webster's New World
One of a pair of hornlike, bony, deciduous growths, often elongated and branched, on the head of an adult member of the deer family, usually found only on males.
American Heritage Medicine

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.
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Singular:
antler
Plural:
antlers

Origin of Antler

  • From Middle English auntelere, hauntelere, from Old French antoillier (“antler, horn”), of unknown origin. The attempted explanation deriving from an unattested Latin *(rarum) ante ocularis (“branch before the eyes”), seems doubtful, as no other Romance language has a similar word of such formation.

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  • Middle English aunteler from Old French antoillier from Vulgar Latin antoculāre, anteoculāre Latin ante- ante- Latin oculāris of the eye ocular

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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