antler
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lər noun
one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.
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| —n | |
| one of a pair of bony outgrowths on the heads of male deer and some related species of either sex. The antlers are shed each year and those of some species grow more branches as the animal ages | |
| [C14: from Old French antoillier, from Vulgar Latin anteoculare (unattested) (something) in front of the eye] | |
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Antler
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
antler
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. auntiler, from O.Fr. antoillier (Mod.Fr. andouiller) "antler," 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.
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Example sentences
From the kudu horn made from the spiral-horned antler to the plastic horn is not such a great distance.
For this reason, it attracts a large number of shed antler hunters every winter and spring.
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