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estrus
noun(es-trus)
a regularly recurrent state of sexual receptivity during which the female of most mammals will accept the male and is capable of conceiving : heat; also : a single occurrence of this state
estrus
noun(es-trus)
the correlated phenomena of the endocrine and reproductive systems of a female mammal from the beginning of one period of estrus to the beginning of the next —called also estral cycle, estrus cycle

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