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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective in a period of sexual inactivity; -- of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season.

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

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