ESTRUS


Meaning of ESTRUS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈes-trəs ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin, from Latin oestrus gadfly, frenzy, from Greek oistros — more at ire

Date: circa 1890

: a regularly recurrent state of sexual excitability during which the female of most mammals will accept the male and is capable of conceiving : heat ; also : a single occurrence of this state

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.