antlerlessness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From antlerless + -ness.
Noun
[edit]antlerlessness (uncountable)
- Absence of antlers.
- 1991, International Union of Game Biologists, Global trends in wildlife management, page 301:
- Antlerlessness was noted only in females. This phenomenon is fairly rare for wild deer of the Kola Peninsula, in contrast to some mountain and tundra populations where antlerlessness reaches 25-23%.
- 2007, Tom Chapin, Poachers Caught!: Adventures of a Northwoods Game Warden:
- The judge slowly opened the bag and there in all its antlerlessness was the deer head from the illegally taken fawn.