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ANESTROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anestrous mean?
• ANESTROUS (adjective)
The adjective ANESTROUS has 2 senses:
2. (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat
Familiarity information: ANESTROUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to anestrus
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
anestric; anestrous; anoestrous
Pertainym:
anestrus (applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat
Context example:
an anestrous bitch
Similar:
diestrous; diestrual; dioestrous; dioestrual ((of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity)
Domain category:
mammal; mammalian (any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk)
Antonym:
estrous ((of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus; in heat)
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