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Applies to nonhuman mammals a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
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estrus
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Estrus is the phase when the female of a species is sexually receptive. Estrus may also refer to: Estrus Records , an independent record label from Bellingham, Washington Estrus EP , an EP by John Frusciante
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1850, "frenzied passion," from Latin oestrus "frenzy, gadfly," from Greek oistros "gadfly; breeze; sting; anything which makes one mad, mad impulse," perhaps from a PIE *eis- (1), forming words denoting passion (see ire ). First attested 1890 with specific ...
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n. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of oestrus English)
WordNet
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n. applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: oestrus , heat , rut ] [ant: anestrus ]
Usage examples of estrus.
Matas has described a case in which the estrus larvae were found in the gluteal region.
Ayla could hear the low rumbles of the estrus female clearly enough, but the male in musth had such quiet-seeming deep tones that they barely heard him.
A female in heat, estrus, the reproductive period when females were able to conceive, was sexually attractive to all males, sometimes more than she liked.
Among woolly mammoths, not only did females come into heat, estrus, each year fully adult males went into lust, a period of heightened sexual readiness, called musth.
Though any male past puberty could mate with a receptive estrus female, bulls were far more successful when they were in musth.
When a female was in estrus, or a male was in musth, the pitch of their voices lowered.
Only three or four other bulls were in musth at the same time, during the six- or seven-month period that females might come into estrus, but it was unlikely that any of those who were also in lust would challenge the big russet for the female who was in heat.
During this first estrus, she became restless and almost impossible to control.
While in estrus she found being confined intolerable, even though she had always slept in a locked room.
We had to listen to her screaming and pounding much of the night, and one night during that first estrus she managed to break the lock and get out.
When she came out of that first estrus, her personality did not entirely return to normal, although things settled down.
Forgive me for saying this, but when she was in estrus she was the horniest thing that ever prowled the streets of Kibbencook.
In some mares the estrus will last only two days, in some as much as eleven.
Life was much more flexible, with different females coming into estrus at different times.
The swellings, her very public estrus, were thus a way for Patch to control the males around her at minimal cost to herself, and to reduce the risk of infanticide.