ANTLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antler mean? 

• ANTLER (noun)
  The noun ANTLER has 1 sense:

1. deciduous horn of a member of the deer family

  Familiarity information: ANTLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous horn of a member of the deer family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("antler" is a kind of...):

horn (one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates)

Holonyms ("antler" is a part of...):

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

 Context examples 

Deer antler extract contains insulin-like growth factor-1, estrone and estradiol.

(Cervus elaphus Horn Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Splay hoofs and palmated antlers they knew, and they flung their customary patience and caution to the wind.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Back and forth the bull tossed his great palmated antlers, branching to fourteen points and embracing seven feet within the tips.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Understory trees such as striped maples grow beneath the forest canopy and may become unhealthy for many reasons: insects chew on them, deer use them for antler rubs, large trees fall on them during storms, and drought can affect them.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

An extract obtained from deer antler velvet.

(Cervus elaphus Horn Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

He would bark and dance about in front of the bull, just out of reach of the great antlers and of the terrible splay hoofs which could have stamped his life out with a single blow.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)