Meaning of RUMINANT
| Pronunciation: | | 'roomununt
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- [n] any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
- [adj] related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
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| | See Also: | | abomasum, American antelope, Antilocapra americana, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, bovid, camelopard, cervid, chevrotain, deer, even-toed ungulate, first stomach, fourth stomach, Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe, mouse deer, omasum, pollard, prongbuck, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope, psalterium, reticulum, rumen, Ruminantia, second stomach, suborder Ruminantia, third stomach | |
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\Ru"mi*nant\, a. [L. ruminans, -antis, p. pr.: cf. F.
ruminant. See {Ruminate}.] (Zo["o]l.)
Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been
swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
\Ru"mi*nant\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
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