polyestrous

1. 1.

   having more than one period of estrus per year

   Synonymspolyoestrous

   Similarestrous

Questions about polyestrous

What does polyestrous mean?

polyestrous means "having more than one period of estrus per year".

How many syllables are in polyestrous?

polyestrous has 3 syllables: po-lye-strous. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for polyestrous?

Close synonyms include polyoestrous. 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 polyestrous a common word?

polyestrous 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.