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from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.

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