antler

[ ant-ler ]

noun

1. one of the solid deciduous horns, usually branched, of an animal of the deer family.

antler

/ ˈæntlə /

noun

1. 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

Other Words From

• antler·less adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of antler¹

1350–1400; Middle English aunteler < Middle French antoillier < Vulgar Latin *anteoculārem ( rāmum ), accusative singular of *anteoculāris ( rāmus ) anteocular (branch of a stag's horn). See ante-, ocular

Word History and Origins

Origin of antler¹

C14: from Old French antoillier, from Vulgar Latin anteoculare (unattested) (something) in front of the eye

Example Sentences

High in the forest canopy, a mass of strange ferns grips a tree trunk, looking like a giant tangle of floppy, viridescent antlers.

From Science News

The resulting losses might, incidentally, include the kinky evil 500-year-age-gap antler sex you’ve requested, Aja.

From Vox

In an odd coincidence, Thomas Henry Huxley’s grandson, Julian Huxley, did his most important work in an effort to demonstrate that the antlers were not terribly out of proportion with the Elk’s body.

From Nautilus

In view of the books Huxley read and the museums he worked in, we can be sure he was familiar with fossils of the Irish Elk, a species that labored under uniquely immense antlers until it fell into extinction around 8,000 years ago.

From Nautilus

Perhaps, if Huxley had taken his humbling of man farther, he would have seen that evolutionary super-sizing of certain cephalic structures, whether antlers or brains, might prove dangerous in the long run.

From Nautilus

Either the child was buried at the same time the elk antler tools were made or 400 years later.

From The Daily Beast

They had to infect the perfectly adequate data with the totally improbable idea of a 400-year-old heirloom elk antler tool.

From The Daily Beast

Then he returns to his cabin and (literally) hangs up his hat on the antler of a stuffed buck.

From The Daily Beast

But HGH is peculiar among PEDs in that, similar to deer antler spray, there is no evidence it helps athletic performance.

From The Daily Beast

But Brandeis University professor Joyce Antler, author of You Never Call!

From The Daily Beast

When Fleetfoot saw Antler roll the skins in a loose roll, he asked if she was going to chew them.

From Project Gutenberg

When the skins were softened, Antler told Fleetfoot that once her people chewed the skins.

From Project Gutenberg

While Antler and Fleetfoot were talking, all the women and children gathered around.

From Project Gutenberg

The children were crying for food, and since Antler had nothing to give them, she was trying to get them to play.

From Project Gutenberg

When Antler took a large skin and wrapped it around her, Fleetfoot thought that she was going to play “bear.”

From Project Gutenberg