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Ruminant   /rˈumənənt/   Listen
Ruminant

noun
1.
Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments.



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Ruminantia
suborder Ruminantia


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"Ruminant" Quotes from Famous Books



... They used merely bows with stone-pointed arrows, and they resorted to the most ingenious methods in order to capture the buffalo, which was their principal food. In fact, they subsisted almost entirely upon that great ruminant. ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... of ruminant, or, according to the native account, a species of Pachydermata called the Gan Pohoo, occurs on Thuma-thaya. At the summit of the mountain the ground was in one place rooted up, the Mishmees said, by this animal, which they describe as a large Hog, ...
— Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The - Neighbouring Countries • William Griffith
... length and sentimentality, criticism from that day to this has been at one in agreeing that here is not only Richardson's best book but a truly great Novel. Certainly one who patiently submits to a ruminant reading of the story, will find that when at last the long-deferred climax is reached and the awed and penitent Lovelace describes the death-bed moments of the girl he has ruined, the scene has a great moving power. Allowing for differences of taste and time, the vogue of the ...
— Masters of the English Novel - A Study Of Principles And Personalities • Richard Burton


Words linked to "Ruminant" :   third stomach, pollard, Antilocapra americana, suborder Ruminantia, second stomach, even-toed ungulate, deer, pronghorn antelope, Giraffa camelopardalis, nonruminant, prongbuck, pronghorn, cervid, giraffe, American antelope, artiodactyl, mouse deer, psalterium, ruminate, predigest, artiodactyl mammal, rumen, camelopard, omasum, chevrotain, abomasum, bovid, reticulum, fourth stomach, first stomach


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