[ant-ler] 
| one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family. |
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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