ANTLER

[ant.ler] n [ME aunteler, fr. MF antoillier, fr. (assumed) VL anteoculare, fr. neut. of anteocularis located before the eye, fr. L ante- + oculus eye--more at eye] (14c): one of the paired deciduous solid bone processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family; also: a branch of an antler -- ant.lered adj