: a woman who hunts game
also
: a female animal that hunts prey
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Are Antlers Horns? (Credit:Chamois huntress/Shutterstock) Frequently used interchangeably, antlers and horns are quite different.
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Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
Yet even as Daisy Ridley acts with a wary urgency, the upshot is that Helena, raised not by wolves but by a kind of human wolf, is supposed to be a huntress to her bones.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
Feyre is a 19-year-old huntress who kills a wolf in the woods.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
Zhang is Milva, a human adopted by the dryads of Brokilon Forest who is a fierce and talented huntress.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2022
As mentioned, vampire Juliette is played by Sarah Catherine Hook and while her huntress lover Calliope is portrayed by Imani Lewis.
—Seventeen, 17 May 2022
Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2023
Yet even as Daisy Ridley acts with a wary urgency, the upshot is that Helena, raised not by wolves but by a kind of human wolf, is supposed to be a huntress to her bones.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
Feyre is a 19-year-old huntress who kills a wolf in the woods.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
Zhang is Milva, a human adopted by the dryads of Brokilon Forest who is a fierce and talented huntress.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2022
As mentioned, vampire Juliette is played by Sarah Catherine Hook and while her huntress lover Calliope is portrayed by Imani Lewis.
—Seventeen, 17 May 2022
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huntress
noun
hunt·ress
ˈhən-trəs 
: a woman who hunts game
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