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Ruminant

Ruminant Meaning & Definition
Ruminant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ruminant?

[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

Ruminant In Webster's Dictionary

\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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