Definitions
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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You, on the other hand, may prefer the neat, even, fork-tined type.
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