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ruminant


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ruminant  \Ru"mi*nant\,  n.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  ruminant  animal;  one  of  the  Ruminantia. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ruminant  \Ru"mi*nant\,  a.  [L.  ruminans,  -antis,  p.  pr.:  cf  F. 
  ruminant.  See  {Ruminate}.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  Chewing  the  cud;  characterized  by  chewing  again  what  has  been 
  swallowed;  of  or  pertaining  to  the  Ruminantia. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ruminant 
  adj  :  related  to  or  characteristic  of  animals  of  the  suborder 
  Ruminantia  or  any  other  animal  that  chews  a  cud; 
  "ruminant  mammals"  [ant:  {nonruminant}] 
  n  :  any  of  various  cud-chewing  hoofed  mammals  having  a  stomach 
  divided  into  four  (occasionally  three)  compartments 




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