RUMINANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does ruminant mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• RUMINANT (noun)
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)
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)
