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DIESTRUM

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

• DIESTRUM (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("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)

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