DIESTROUS

diestrous, dioestrous, diestrual, dioestrual

(adjective) (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

diestrous (not comparable)

(biology) Of or relating to the diestrus, a period of sexual quiescence between two estrus periods.

(biology) Having two periods of estrus in a year.

Anagrams

• Tudorises, dioestrus, diœstrus, outsiders, tudorises

Source: Wiktionary



RESET




Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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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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