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Antler

//ˈænt.lə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city and village in North Dakota.
Noun
  1. 1
    A deciduous branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose, and elk, normally in pairs, 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."

  2. 2
    deciduous horn of a member of the deer family wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English auntelere, hauntelere, from Old French antoillier (“antler, horn”), from ante- (“in front of”) + oillier (oil (“eye”) + -ier (a suffix indicating location)), possibly from an unattested Latin *anteocularis (“before the eye”).

Etymology 2

Named for nearby Antler Creek, whose branches resemble deer antlers when viewed on a map.

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