MUSTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musth mean? 

• MUSTH (noun)
  The noun MUSTH has 1 sense:

1. an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear

  Familiarity information: MUSTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

the frenzied elephant was in musth

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

phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)