ANOESTRUM

anestrus, anestrum, anoestrus, anoestrum

(noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

11 February 2025

ALEWIFE

(noun) shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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