Ruminant Definition

ro͝omə-nənt
noun
Any of the suborders (Ruminantia and Tylopoda) of four-footed, cud-chewing artiodactylous mammals: cattle, buffalo, goat, deer, antelope, and giraffe have a stomach with four chambers (the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum) and the camel, llama, and chevrotain have a stomach with three chambers.
Webster's New World
Any of various animals that ruminate but are not in the Ruminantia, including camels, alpacas, and llamas.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
adjective
Chewing the cud.
Webster's New World
Of or belonging to the Ruminantia.
American Heritage Medicine
Of the cud-chewing animals.
Webster's New World
Meditative; thoughtful.
Webster's New World

Pondering; ruminative.

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Other Word Forms of Ruminant

Noun

Singular:
ruminant
Plural:
ruminants

Origin of Ruminant

  • From Latin rūmināns rūminant- present participle of rūmināre to ruminate ruminate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin rumino, to chew the cud

    From Wiktionary

Ruminant Sentence Examples

  • As already stated, there is a possibility of this latter ruminant being allied both to the takin and the musk-ox.

  • Australia has no apes, monkeys or baboons, and no ruminant beasts.

  • A peculiar form of baboon, Cynopithecus, and the singular ruminant, Anoa, found in Celebes, seem to have no relation to Asiatic animals, and rather to be allied to those in Africa.

  • In common with an allied ruminant from the same district, previously described as Euceratherium, it seems probable that Preptoceras is related on the one hand to the musk-ox, and on the other to the Asiatic takin, while it is also supposed to have affinities with the sheep. If these extinct forms really serve to connect the takin with the musk-ox, their systematic importance will be very great.

  • Osgood to make an important addition to our knowledge of this remarkable type of ruminant.

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RRURUM

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TNTANT

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