musth

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Definition of musth in English English dictionary

A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness

an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear; "the frenzied elephant was in musth

{i} (Zoology) frenzied and often violent sexual excitement in elephants

Etymology

() Persian مست (mast, “drunk, inebriated”).