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Definition of Oestrum
1. estrum [n -S] - See also: estrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oestrum
Literary usage of Oestrum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1848)
"oestrum AURANTIACUM. ... The greater part of the species of oestrum are stove
plants ; but the present subject, ..."
2. The Breeding of Animals by Frederick Blackmar Mumford (1917)
"The recurrence of the oestrum after delivery of the young is often influenced by
the character of the ration. At the Wisconsin B Experiment Station, Hart, ..."