anestrus

Other forms of anestrus

plural

anestruses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anestrus

What does anestrus mean?

anestrus means "applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus".

How many syllables are in anestrus?

anestrus has 3 syllables and divides as a-ne-strus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for anestrus?

Close synonyms include anestrum, anoestrus, anoestrum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of anestrus?

The recorded antonyms are estrus.

Is anestrus a common word?

anestrus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.