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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



... confirm this hypothesis: for it is well-known that these animals pursue their prey just after the manner of a pack of real hounds—doubling upon it, and using every artifice to run it down. The numerous species of ruminant animals—the antelope in particular—are the especial objects of their pursuit, and upon these they subsist. Like the Indian wild dogs, they live in communities—using the burrows of the wild hog and ant-eater, as also the hollow ant-hills, for their lairs and breeding places. ...
— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid


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


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