antler

«antler» in Mova's school dictionary: one of the two branched, bony horns that grow on the head… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an antler, antlers)

meaning for a pupil

1) An antler is one of the two branched, bony horns that grow on the head of a deer, elk, moose or reindeer. tree →

2) Antlers fall off and grow again every year, unlike horns, which stay for life. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons antlers come up in adaptations and life cycles: male deer use antlers to fight other males in the mating season, and the new antlers are covered in soft furry skin called velvet while they grow. Reindeer are the only deer where both males and females have antlers. In stories and Christmas pictures, reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh have big antlers.

examples

• The stag's antlers had many points. tree →
• Deer shed their antlers every year. tree →
• The moose had wide, flat antlers. tree →
• Both male and female reindeer grow antlers. tree →
• Two stags locked antlers in a fight. tree →
• The new antlers were covered in soft velvet. tree →
• We found an old antler in the woods. tree →
• The carved stags pushed out their heads, raised their antlers, and twisted their necks. tree →

note

Usually plural «antlers», because an animal has two. Antlers are bone and fall off each year; horns (on cows, goats, rhinos) are not shed. Do not say a cow has antlers.

In the corpora

• Reindeer are the only deer in which both males and females usually grow antlers.
• That is what a stag does with its antlers, every single year.
• Antlers are pure bone and among the fastest-growing bone of any mammal.
• So deer have antlers, not horns.
• Stags grow new antlers every year, so the number of points can change from year to year.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «antler» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.