DIESTRUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity

Synonyms:

diestrum; diestrus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("diestrum" is a kind of...):

anestrum; anestrus; anoestrum; anoestrus (applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus)

Derivation:

diestrual ((of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity)

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