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DIESTRUS
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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 ("diestrus" 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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