OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 44908

musth

/mʌst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
must
Chiefly preceded by in or on: the state each year during which a male animal (usually a camel or an elephant) exhibits increased aggressiveness and sexual activity due to a high level of testosterone; (countable) an instance of this.
No animal in the world is so dangerous as an elephant in must.
The Taroos, or elephant catchers, having marked down a wild herd of 300 or 400 elephants, the following preparations are made. About 200 Taroos collect together, mounted upon eleph…
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