Sentence examples for antler from inspiring English sources

The word "antler" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the branched horns of a deer. For example, you could say: "The buck's antlers were tall and majestic."

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antler

noun

A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are 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.

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The Old World deer include the 11 species of tropical Asian muntjacs (genus Muntiacus), the most primitive deer; males bear tusks and antlers on tall antler pedicles.

The university has now begun a more detailed research project into the potential of elk antler velvet (the fur on the antlers) for treating impotence.

Where do I party For drinks in the Jewellery Quarter, the Rose Villa Tavern is a creative take on the classic pub, with Victorian stained-glass windows and green tiling offset by madcap touches such as fairy-lit tree branches, antler chandeliers and a red phone box.

The male Irish elk, for example, developed a five-metre antler span just to impress the ladies shortly before the species went extinct.

Mining for copper ores was practiced at El Milagro and Aramo (Asturias), where the last miners abandoned their antler picks and levers deep in the underground galleries.

Malleable metal had several advantages over a brittle material, such as rock or bone or antler.

Projectile points with curved backs and end scrapers were used; bone tools included punches, "wands" (of uncertain use), and flat harpoons often made of red-deer antler.

The resulting deformation (the Antler orogeny) was close in age to the Ellesmerian orogeny in the Arctic.

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Duh.Jim Antle of the American Conservative worries that "if the Constitution has no meaning apart from what the judges say it means, we have no written Constitution".

But further in we find the postcard scene: kapok trees growing antler-like from temple walls, strangler figs winding in and out of brickwork like mortar-eating snakes.

The single antlerless form, the Chinese water deer (Hydropotes inermis), reflects an earlier pre-antler condition, as is shown by the fossil record.

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