Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun diestrus

1 sense of diestrus

Sense 1
diestrus, diestrum -- ((of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity)
       => anestrus, anestrum, anoestrus, anoestrum -- (applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus)