antler

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antler

roe deer, elk, and moose antlers (Elizabeth Morales)

n.
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.

[Middle English aunteler, from Old French antoillier, from Vulgar Latin *antoculāre, anteoculāre : Latin ante-, ante- + Latin oculāris, of the eye; see ocular.]

antlered ant'lered adj.

[Ma]

Bone-like structures found on the heads of male red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, and elk (moose), and on both male and female reindeer (caribou). Antlers are grown in the spring and shed annually in the winter, except in reindeer which shed their antlers in the spring. Antler was a valuable material for making tools and equipment of various kinds throughout northern Europe, northern Asia, and North America from Palaeolithic times through into the medieval period and beyond.

Single-tined or branched horny outgrowths from the frontal bones of male deer. Reindeer and caribou females also have horns. Antlers grow and are shed each year, becoming more complicated in structure as the buck ages. At the beginning of the season the horns are covered with velvet, the soft, hairy skin which produces the horn and is then shed to expose the horn which is itself shed the next spring.

• a. amputation — a dehorning technique requiring considerable skill and experience to avoid losing the deer and to ensure regrowth of the antler.
• a. farming — deer farming conducted for the sole purpose of annual harvesting of the antlers for quasi-pharmaceutical use.
• velvet a. — the whole of the antler, including the velvet and the outgrowth of the frontal bone, before calcification.

Because they are particularly characteristic of certain male animals, antlers tend to represent masculinity, masculine sexuality (virility), and male aggression (particularly conflict between males). In a dream, they may represent masculine power and assertiveness or a metaphorical "trophy of the hunt."

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - gevir, hjortetak, tak

Nederlands (Dutch)
geweitak

Français (French)
n. - bois de cerf, merrain, les bois, la ramure

Deutsch (German)
n. - Geweihsprosse

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ζωολ.) ελαφίσιο κέρας

Italiano (Italian)
corna ramificate

Português (Portuguese)
n. - esgalho (m) de chifre da armação de veado e de outros cervídeos (Zool.), cornos (m pl), armas (f pl)

Русский (Russian)
олений рог

Español (Spanish)
n. - asta, cuerno, cornamenta

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - horn, tagg

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
鹿角, 茸角, 多叉鹿角, 角枝

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 鹿角, 茸角, 多叉鹿角, 角枝

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 가지진 뿔

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 枝角, 枝

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قرن الوعل أو شعبه منه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קרני אייל/צבי‬

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