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nounany of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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"ruminant mammals"related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cudOpposite:
Definition that contains ruminant
- 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
- ruminant related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud
- rumination (of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
- abomasum the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place