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English adjective: ruminant

1. ruminant related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud


SamplesRuminant mammals.


Antonymsnonruminant


English noun: ruminant

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


Broader (hypernym)artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate


Narrower (hyponym)American antelope, Antilocapra americana, bovid, camelopard, cervid, chevrotain, deer, Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe, mouse deer, pollard, prongbuck, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope


Part holonymabomasum, first stomach, fourth stomach, omasum, psalterium, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, third stomach


Member meronymRuminantia, suborder Ruminantia


Domain category memberspredigest, ruminate









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