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Definition of Dioestrous
1. Adjective. (of animals that have several estrous cycles in one breeding season) in a period of sexual inactivity.
Similar to: Anestrous
Derivative terms: Diestrum, Diestrus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioestrous
Literary usage of Dioestrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Breeding of Animals by Frederick Blackman Mumford (1917)
"The number of dioestrous cycles in one sexual season depends upon the occurrence
or nonoccurrence of successful coition during oestrus. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"The complete dioestrous cycle in the sheep in the only case which came under my
observation was fifteen days, but from the observations of others with whom ..."
3. The Vitamins by Henry Clapp Sherman, Sybil Laura Smith (1922)
"... under such circumstances, the oestrous changes may be remarkably prolonged,
and the dioestrous pause in fact obliterated. As Evans and Long have shown, ..."
4. The Elements of Animal Physiology by William Alexander Osborne (1909)
"... animals the dioestrous cycles are only two or three in number. Domestication and
change of climate and food have a marked effect on these cycles. ..."
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