monestrous

1. 1.

   having one estrous cycle per year

   Synonymsmonoestrous

   Similarestrous

Questions about monestrous

What does monestrous mean?

monestrous means "having one estrous cycle per year".

How many syllables are in monestrous?

monestrous has 3 syllables: mo-ne-strous. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for monestrous?

Close synonyms include monoestrous. 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.

Is monestrous a common word?

monestrous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.