| ADJECTIVE | pert | anestrous, anestric, anoestrous | of or relating to anestrus |
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| all | anestrous | (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus |
| Meaning | Of or relating to anestrus. | |
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| Synonyms | anestric, anoestrous | |
| Spanish | anestroso | |
| Nouns | anestrus | applies to nonhuman mammals |
| Meaning | (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat. | |
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| Example | "an anestrous bitch" | |
| Category | mammal, mammalian | Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair |
| Narrower | diestrous, dioestrous, diestrual, dioestrual | (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity |
| Opposite | estrous | (of lower mammals) showing or in a state of estrus |
| Spanish | anestroso | |
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