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ANESTROUS

• ANESTROUS (adjective)
The adjective ANESTROUS has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to anestrus
2. (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat

Familiarity information: ANESTROUS used as an adjective is rare.

• ANESTROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

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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

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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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