Crossword clues for oestrus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
OEstrus \[OE]s"trus\, n. [L., a gadfly; also, frenzy, fr. Gr. ? gadfly; hence, sting, fury, insane desire, frenzy.]
(Zo["o]l.) A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larv[ae] in the nasal cavities of sheep is [oe]strus ovis.
A vehement desire.
Specifically: (Physiol.) The periodical sexual impulse of animals; the period during which female animals are most receptive to males; heat; rut.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see estrus.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A biting fly of the genus ''Oestrus''; a botfly. 2 A bite or sting. 3 (context archaic English) A passion or frenzy. 4 A female animal's readiness to mate; heat, rut.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "oestrus".
And if one of them was in musth, and one of us in oestrus, there would be a mating.
When other rhinos come this way, they will be able to tell that the cow over there is in oestrus, ready to mate.
Tasting them, he knew that she, too, was ready: in oestrus, bearing the egg that might grow into their calf.
Like mammoths, the oestrus cycle of these mastodonts was timed so that the calves would be born in early spring, maximizing the time available for them to feed and grow strong before the calves faced the rigors of their first winter.
And when she probed that deep oceanic part of herself, she detected no sign that oestrus was near.
Without understanding it he was calling to oestrus Cows, if any had been here to listen.
Again she was struck by the fact that she had still not come into oestrus, had felt not so much as a single twinge of that great inner warmth in all the time she had been here.
Cows were in oestrus, right here and right now, still Thunder would fail to find himself a mate.
A sad unspoken thought passed between Boaster and Icebones: she had still not come into oestrus, and they both feared now that the dryness at her core would never be broken.
He tried to get closer to Breeze, whose oestrus smell was still powerful.
She, of course, had never come into oestrus, not once in her long life since she had woken from her strange, half-forgotten Sleep on that remote mountainside.
Among Japanese macaques, social class is maintained and reinforced by daily mounting: males of lower caste adopt the characteristic submissive sexual posture of the female in oestrus and are briefly and ceremonially mounted by higher-caste males.
Heterocephalus colony is too inbred, an occasional male becomes much heavier and is reluctant to mate, even when his own queen is in oestrus and receptive.
Gillots came into oestrus every forty-eight days, while the stalluns performed the sexual act every three weeks.
When he hears the snap of a twig, the breath of an animal or enemy, then he disappears even if oestrus is spreadeagled before him.