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🦌 Without antlers 🦌 Animal with no antlers
antlerless

antlerless

1 5.3
Not having the hard branched horns that grow on a deer's head
  • adjective
  • /ˈæntlərləs/
: sin cuernos
  • A youngster hunting deer must be in possession of either a firearms deer license or an antlerless deer license.
  • antlerless deer
  • antlerless permits
  • antlerless deer harvest

Examples

  • Hunters are required to obtain permits specifically for antlerless deer during the hunting season.

  • To manage the deer population effectively, the state has set a limit on the number of antlerless deer that can be hunted each year.

  • The wildlife reserve allows only the hunting of antlerless deer to promote healthy herd dynamics.

Antonyms

antlered
1 4.7

An animal, usually a male deer, with large branched bone growths on its head

How Antlered

antlered
1 4.7
antlerless
1 5.3

Surface Forms

antlerless positive

Morphology

antlerless = antler (transparent) = antler + less

The adjective is a straightforward combination of 'antler' + '-less' meaning 'without antlers'.

Etymology

Antlerless is simply antler + -less, where -less means 'without'. Think of a deer after it sheds its antlers: 'without antlers', which is the adjective meaning.