Monestrous vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
monestrous | monstrous |
(label) Of or pertaining to a mammal, such as the dog, that only enters into heat once during each of its normal breeding cycles.
* 1977 , Solomon Zuckerman and Barbara J. Weir (eds.), The Ovary: Volume 2 Physiology , 2nd ed., ISBN 9781483259758,
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* 2013 , William O. Reece, Functional Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals , ISBN 9781118685990,
hideous or frightful
* Shakespeare
enormously large
freakish or grotesque
* John Locke
* Jeremy Taylor
of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters
* Milton
(obsolete) marvellous; strange
As adjectives the difference between monestrous and monstrous
is that monestrous is (label) of or pertaining to a mammal, such as the dog, that only enters into heat once during each of its normal breeding cycles while monstrous is hideous or frightful.monestrous
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- 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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- Males of monestrous species also exhibit a cycle, being sexually active only during the females' estrus.
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- Most wild carnivorous mammals are monestrous .
Antonyms
* polyestrousReferences
*monstrous
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(en adjective)- So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
- a monstrous height
- a monstrous ox
- a monstrous birth
- He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
- Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.