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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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