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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) musth
a state or condition of violent, destructive frenzy occurring with the rutting season in male elephants.

Etymology: (1870–75; < Urdu mast < Pers: lit., drunk)

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1. (noun) musth
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"

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