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ant⋅ler
[ant-ler] 
lər
–noun
| one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family. |
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ant·ler (ānt'lər)  (click for larger image in new window) n. One of a pair of hornlike, bony, deciduous growths, usually elongated and branched, on the head of a deer, moose, elk, caribou, or other member of the deer family. [Middle English aunteler, from Old French antoillier, from Vulgar Latin *antoculāre, anteoculāre : Latin ante-, ante- + Latin oculāris, of the eye; see ocular.] ant'lered adj. |
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Antler
Ant"ler\, n. [OE. auntelere, OF. antoillier, andoiller, endouiller, fr. F. andouiller, fr. an assumed LL. antocularis, fr. L. ante before + oculus eye. See Ocular.] (Zo["o]l.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. Huge stags with sixteen antlers. --Macaulay. Note: The branch next to the head is called the brow antler, and the branch next above, the bez antler, or bay antler. The main stem is the beam, and the branches are often called tynes. Antlers are deciduous bony (not horny) growths, and are covered with a periosteum while growing. See Velvet. Antler moth (Zo["o]l.), a destructive European moth (Cerapteryx graminis), which devastates grass lands.
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Language Translation for : antler
Spanish:
cuerna, cornamenta,
German:
das Geweih,
Japanese:
鹿の枝角
antler
1399, from Anglo-Fr. auntiler, from O.Fr. antoillier, perhaps from Gallo-Romance cornu *antoculare "horn in front of the eyes," from L. ante "before" (see ante) + ocularis "of the eyes." Doubted by some, because no similar word exists in any other Romance language, but cf. Ger. Augensprossen "antlers," lit. "eye-sprouts," for a similar formation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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