Assertion: deer's skin | /r/Synonym | velvet
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text: The growing antlers take time to develop, and during this time a soft skin called “velvet” protects them.
text: While actively growing, the antlers are covered with and protected by a soft layer of highly vascularised skin known as velvet.
text: While their antlers are growing, a protective skin called “velvet” protects them.
text: While their antlers are growing, a protective skin called “velvet” protects them.
text: (Growing antlers are covered in a blood-engorged skin called velvet.)
text: This skin is called “velvet,” because it is quite similar in texture to the fabric.
text: It is covered with blood-filled, hairy skin called velvet.
text: While an antler is growing, it is covered with highly vascular skin called velvet, which supplies oxygen and nutrients to the growing bone.
text: The antlers are shed of the blood-engorged skin called velvet in late August, and the bulls are in rut by the first week of September.
text: While growing, which can take up to 4 months, they are covered in a soft, hairy skin called velvet.
text: Each year in March, the antlers start to grow but are covered in a special fuzzy skin called velvet.
text: Antlers are made of a type of dense and very solid bone and whilst growing they are covered with a hairy skin called ‘velvet’ which is shed when the antlers have reached their full size for that year.