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Monestrous

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a mammal, such as the dog, that only enters into heat once during each of its normal breeding cycles. not-comparable

    "The dog, wolf, and fox are monestrous, the fox and wolf having one and the dog two cycles in a year."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having one estrous cycle per year wordnet

Etymology

From mon- + estrous.

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