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DIESTRUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does diestrum mean?
• DIESTRUM (noun)
The noun DIESTRUM has 1 sense:
1. (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity
Familiarity information: DIESTRUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
diestrum; diestrus
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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