Oestrus
- n. A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.
- n. A genus of gadflies. The species which deposits its larvae in the nasal cavities of sheep is oestrus ovis.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.