antler
n.
horn of animals in the deer family
Antler
Antlers are the large and complex
horn-like appendages of male
deer, consisting of
bony outgrowths from the head with no covering of
keratin as is found in true horns. Each antler grows from an attachment point on the skull called a
pedicle. While an antler is growing it is covered with highly
vascular skin called
velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone; once the antler has achieved its proper size, the velvet is lost and the antler's bone dies. This dead bone structure is the mature antler. Antlers shed after each mating season.
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Antler
antler
Noun
1. deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
(hypernym) horn
(part-holonym) deer, cervid
Antler
(n.)
The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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