"monestrous" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mon- + estrous.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1977, Solomon Zuckerman, Barbara J. Weir, editors, The Ovary: Volume 2 Physiology, 2nd edition, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The dog, wolf, and fox are monestrous, the fox and wolf having one and the dog two cycles in a year.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Robert Hine, The Facts on File Dictionary of Biology, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 129:",
          "text": "Males of monestrous species also exhibit a cycle, being sexually active only during the females' estrus.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, William O. Reece, Functional Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals, →ISBN, page 477:",
          "text": "Most wild carnivorous mammals are monestrous.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Of or pertaining to a mammal, such as the dog, that only enters into heat once during each of its normal breeding cycles."
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          "dog",
          "dog"
        ],
        [
          "heat",
          "heat"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) Of or pertaining to a mammal, such as the dog, that only enters into heat once during each of its normal breeding cycles."
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
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  "word": "monestrous"
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  "etymology_text": "From mon- + estrous.",
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          "ref": "1977, Solomon Zuckerman, Barbara J. Weir, editors, The Ovary: Volume 2 Physiology, 2nd edition, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The dog, wolf, and fox are monestrous, the fox and wolf having one and the dog two cycles in a year.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Robert Hine, The Facts on File Dictionary of Biology, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 129:",
          "text": "Males of monestrous species also exhibit a cycle, being sexually active only during the females' estrus.",
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