To go into or experience estrus; to enter the fertile period of the estrous cycle.
Formed from 'estrus' plus '-ate' (verb-forming suffix), following the pattern of Latin verb formation.
This is a technical term biologists use, but it's useful because it lets you talk about the action itself—when an animal 'estruates,' something specific and measurable is happening in her body.
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