antler. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

antler


SYLLABICATION:	ant·ler
PRONUNCIATION:	ntlr
NOUN:	One of a pair of hornlike, bony, deciduous growths, usually elongated and branched, on the head of a deer, moose, elk, caribou, or other member of the deer family.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English aunteler, from Old French antoillier, from Vulgar Latin ^*antoculre, anteoculre : Latin ante-, ante- + Latin oculris, of the eye; see ocular.
OTHER FORMS:	antlered —ADJECTIVE


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