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RUMINANT

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RUMINANT (noun)
  The noun RUMINANT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RUMINANT used as a noun is very rare.


RUMINANT (adjective)
  The adjective RUMINANT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RUMINANT used as an adjective is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


RUMINANT (noun)


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Meaning:

Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ruminant" is a kind of...):

artiodactyl; artiodactyl mammal; even-toed ungulate (placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot)

Meronyms (parts of "ruminant"):

first stomach; rumen (the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing)

reticulum; second stomach (the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant)

omasum; psalterium; third stomach (the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant)

abomasum; fourth stomach (the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place)

Domain member category:

ruminate (chew the cuds)

predigest (digest (food) beforehand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ruminant"):

pollard (a usually horned animal that as either shed its horns or had them removed)

bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)

American antelope; Antilocapra americana; prongbuck; pronghorn; pronghorn antelope (fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns)

cervid; deer (distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers)

chevrotain; mouse deer (very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa)

camelopard; Giraffa camelopardalis; giraffe (tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa)

Holonyms ("ruminant" is a member of...):

Ruminantia; suborder Ruminantia (cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels)


RUMINANT (adjective)


Sense 1ruminant [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

ruminant mammals

Antonym:

nonruminant (not ruminant)

Pertainym:

Ruminantia (cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels)


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