Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the first of two successive periods of sexual desire.
- Relating to the brief interval between two successive periods of sexual desire.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective in a period of sexual inactivity; -- of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity
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All the female rats were euthanized when they were estimated to be in the diestrous stage of their reproductive cycle.
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