rut

Noun

rut (plural ruts)

1. Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals.
2. [From Old French: route, way, pass, road] A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
3. A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. (See also Rutter)

3 letters in word "rut": R T U.

No anagrams for rut found in this word list.

Words found within rut:

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• Definitions:
• The breeding period, as in deer.
• A depression in access roads made by continuous passage of logging vehicles.
• a period of sexual excitement of male deer and other animals, corresponding to the period of estrus in the female.
• A period of concentrated mating; the mating season. Often used with reference to males.
• is a general term that refers to the breeding period of mammals, especially the deer, elk and moose. During the rut, males exhibit specific behaviors to establish harems or to attract females to mate with.
• (Hunting) The breeding season for cervids, which is in the autumn.
• a period of sexual excitement that recurs annually in some male ruminants eg deer
• a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals estrus: applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity furrow: hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil"
• A rut is a depression or groove worn into a road or path by the travel of wheels or skis or by erosion from flowing water. Ruts can be removed by grading a road surface.
• The Rut is the period of time when antlered ungulates, such as deer, sheep, elk, moose, caribou, ibex, goats, pronghorn and Asian and African antelope, mate. The rut for white-tailed deer usually lasts from 1-3 months in the Northern Hemisphere and may occur most of the year in tropical zones. ...

• rusty ←
• rusts ←
• rustres ←
• rut
• → rutabaga
• → rutabagas
• → rutaceous