Definition of ruminants Ruminants
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Wiktionary 
- ruminants (Noun)
Plural of ruminant.
Part of speech
🔤- ruminants, noun, plural of ruminant.
WordNet
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| ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments | ||
| artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot | ||
| ruminantia, suborder ruminantia cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels | ||
| pollard a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed | ||
| first stomach, rumen the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing | ||
| second stomach, reticulum the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | ||
| omasum, psalterium, third stomach the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | ||
| abomasum, fourth stomach the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place | ||
| bovid hollow-horned ruminants | ||
| american antelope, antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | ||
| cervid, deer distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers | ||
| chevrotain, mouse deer very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa | ||
| camelopard, giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | ||
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| ruminant - related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals" | ||
| nonruminant not ruminant | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ruminant (a.)
Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia. - ruminant (n.)
A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
Part of speech
🔤- ruminant, noun, singular of ruminants.
