DIESTRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diestrus mean? 

• DIESTRUS (noun)
  The noun DIESTRUS 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: DIESTRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIESTRUS (noun)

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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 ("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)