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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under rucervine, and under rusine.

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  • noun zoology In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base.

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Latin tris, tres, three + English tyne.

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