单词 | antlered |
释义 | antleredadj. 1. a. Of an animal: bearing or provided with antlers. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1717 |
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