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Antler   Listen
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Antler  n.  (Zool.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. "Huge stags with sixteen antlers." 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 (Zool.), a destructive European moth (Cerapteryx graminis), which devastates grass lands.






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"Antler" Quotes from Famous Books



... neck skin into place and tie it up with a piece of cord about the neck near base. Now, for better convenience in sewing, remove the head from the vise, set front of neck base on the floor and lean the antlers against a chair seat, back of neck up. Draw corners of antler cuts together back of ...
— Taxidermy • Leon Luther Pray

... his throne, The mount, from whence his eye surveys the world. And far from Heaven he turn'd his shining orbs To look on Midgard, and the earth, and men. And on the conjuring Lapps he bent his gaze Whom antler'd reindeer pull over the snow; And on the Finns, the gentlest of mankind, Fair men, who live in holes under the ground; Nor did he look once more to Ida's plain, Nor tow'rd Valhalla, and the sorrowing Gods; For well he knew the Gods would heed his word, And cease to mourn, and think of Balder's ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold



Words linked to "Antler" :   cervid, deer, antler-like, antler moth



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