Look up: Ruminant

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   Ruminant
   A ruminant is an animal that digests its food many times. This food is usually tough plant material like grasses. Ruminants include cows, sheep, antelopes, and camels.
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   Ruminant
   Ruminant is the group (ruminatia) of even-toed hoofed mammals, including chevrotains, camels, deer, giraffes, the prong-buck and cattle, that have more than one stomach and chew the cud.
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   ruminant
   [adj] - related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud 2. [n] - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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   Ruminant
   A hoofed animal such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer with a complicated stomach of 4 parts rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum and which chew the cud.
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   Ruminant
   Herbivorous mammals such as cows that chew the cud and have complex stomachs containing microorganisms that break down the cellulose in plant material.
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   Ruminant
   Ru'mi·nant adjective [ Latin ruminans , -antis , present participle: confer French ruminant . See Ruminate .] (Zoology) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
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   Ruminant
   Ru'mi·nant noun (Zoology) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
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   ruminant
   <zoology> Chewing the cud; characterised by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia. ... Origin: L. Ruminans, -antis, p.pr., cf. F. Ruminant. See Ruminate. ... <zoology> A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   ruminant
   adjective related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; `ruminant mammals`
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    ruminant
    noun any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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    Ruminant
    A `ruminant` is any artiodactyl mammal that digests its food in two steps, first by eating the raw material and regurgitating a semi-digested form known as cud from within their first stomach, known as the rumen. The process of again chewing the cud to break down the plant matter and stimulate digestion is called ruminating. Ruminants include cattle, goats, sheep, camels, alpacas, llamas, giraffes, American Bison, European bison, yaks, water buff...
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    ruminant
    (roo´mĭ-nәnt) chewing the cud. an animal that has a stomach with four complete cavities, and that characteristically regurgitates undigested food from the rumen, the first stomach, and masticates it when at rest.
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    Ruminant
    • (a.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia. • (n.) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
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    ruminant
    any mammal of the suborder Ruminantia (order Artiodactyla), which includes the pronghorns, giraffes, okapis, deer, chevrotains, cattle, antelopes, ... [5 related articles]
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    ruminant
    ruminant (s), ruminants (pl) 1. Any cud-chewing hoofed mammal with an even number of toes and a stomach with multiple chambers; such as, cattle, goats, camels, and giraffes. 2. Any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, consisting of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, (besides domestic cattle), bison, buffalo,...
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    Ruminant
    An animal (they are all herbivores) that 'chew the cud'. Examples are cattle, sheep and deer but NOT horses. They digest more of a plant than 'single stomached' animals by having a 'rumen' (the first of several stomachs) where the plant material they have eaten are fermented by micro-organisms to produce proteins and sugars the animal can digest.
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    ruminant
    ruminant, any of a group of hooved mammals that chew their cud, i.e., that regurgitate and chew again food that has already been swallowed. Ruminants have an even number of toes on each foot and a stomach with either three or four chambers. In the first chamber, called the rumen, the food is mixed w...
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