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Definitions of ruminant
  1. noun
    any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
  2. related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud
    "ruminant mammals"
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  • sheep woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
  • goat any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
  • tripe lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food
  • antelope graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
  • reticulum the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
  • cud food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
  • pachyderm any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant; rhinoceros; hippopotamus
  • rumination (of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
  • omasum the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
  • ruminant related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud
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