antleredadj.
/ˈantləd/, U.S. /ˈæntlərd/ 1.
a. Of an animal: bearing or provided with antlers.
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1717 T. Vernon in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses viii. 296 Sometimes a crested Mare, or antler'd Deer [L. nunc equa..modo cervus].
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. xi. 355 Like a troop Of ravening jackals round an antlered stag.
1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) vi. 165 (caption) Merycodus is ancestral to the North American prongbuck, intermediate between horned and antlered Ruminants.
2006 C. Stringer Homo Britannicus iii. 122 The fallow deer were unusually large and distinctively antlered.
b. Decorated with antlers or stags' heads.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with horns or antlers
hornified1789
antlered1828
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [adjective] > having antlers
headed?a1425
summeda1425
forked1605
branching1667
beamy1694
antlered1828
branchy1830
1828 W. Scott Diary 8 Apr. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1838) VII. 123 We were surveying the antlered old hall.
1893 Downside Rev. Mar. 70 There is no attempt to live up to the solemnity of the antlered walls of the dining-room.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 473 On the antlered rack of the hall hang a man 's hat and waterproof.
1977 P. L. Fermor Time of Gifts v. 126 I..made my way book-laden along an antlered corridor and up a stone spiral to my room.
2001 R. B. Drake Hist. Appalachia (2003) i. 6 Hopewell burial remains within the conical mounds have yielded..antlered head-plates made of copper.
2. Chiefly of a plant: resembling an antler or antlers, esp. in being branched.
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [adjective] > having particular shape or shaped parts
jagged1548
crowned1578
fingered1597
handed1597
hooded1597
unbranched1665
starred1693
bell-like1754
bell-shaped1758
campaniform1758
columniferous1785
gladiate1793
bottlebrush1798
antlereda1806
muscariform1839
sagittiferous1858
crested1861
unseptated1899
unseptate1900
palmiform1962
a1806 C. Smith Nat. Hist. Birds (1815) I. iii. 62 From antler'd oaks the acorns shower'd, As blew the sharp October breeze.
1866 R. M. Bache Young Wrecker of Florida Reef xiii. 127 Those [corals] whose exquisite whiteness and antlered gracefulness render them conspicuous in parlor or cabinet.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1065 Antlered shrubby growths of Chondrus, the edible carragheen or Irish moss, may cover considerable tracts of rock.
1990 J. Hodgins Innocent Cities ii. 12 Horncastle lowered his great antlered eyebrows while he listened to these opening remarks.
2007 J. T. Hospital Orpheus Lost v. 183 Mishka took the antlered and parsley-like sea plants..and laid them down on the grass.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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