Usually means: Period of sexual inactivity, mammals.
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  2. anestrus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Definitions from Wiktionary (anestrus)

noun:  (zoology) In female placental mammals—excluding humans and great apes—a phase of the estrous cycle during which the sexual cycle rests.

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