Definition of antler

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Antler (n.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag..

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Horn :: Horn (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed..
Burr :: Burr (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8..
Panter :: Panter (n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
Attire :: Attire (n.) The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck..
Pollard :: Pollard (n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
Sursanure :: Surroyal (n.) One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
Elaphure :: Elaphure (n.) A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
Tres-tyne :: Tres-tyne (n.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine..
Dag :: Dag (n.) The unbranched antler of a young deer.
Tyne :: Tyne (n.) A prong or point of an antler.
Staghound :: Stag-horned (a.) Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles..
Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc..
Pedicel :: Pedicel (n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals..
Spitted :: Spitted (a.) Shot out long; -- said of antlers.
Water Deer :: Water deer () A small Chinese deer (Hydropotes inermis). Both sexes are destitute of antlers, but the male has large, descending canine tusks..
Knag :: Knag (n.) The prong of an antler.
Velvet :: Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
Tine :: Tine (n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler..
Deer :: Deer (n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison..
Pudu :: Pudu (n.) A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long..
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