Contents

English

Wikipedia has an article on: Antler

Pronunciation

Etymology

From French antoillier which came from Latin for rarum ante ocularis (“branch before the eyes”), after the look of antlers which resemble a tree branch.

Noun

Singular antler

Plural antlers

antler (plural antlers)

  1. a branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)
    While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer.

Anagrams

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Sat Mar 13 20:45:05 2010. [ refresh local cache ]
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.

[Hide]▼
[Hide]▲