fork-tined

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Noting antlers that lack the large, more or less depressed browtine found in the wapiti and European red deer of the genus Cervus: contrasted with brow-tined. The South American swamp deer, Blastocerus paludosus, and the mule-deer, Odocoileus macrotis, have typical fork-tined antlers.