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ruminant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal, artiodactyl |
| Has types | cervid, chevrotain, deer, giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe, mouse deer, american antelope, antilocapra americana, bovid, camelopard, pollard, prongbuck, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope |
| Derivation | ruminate |
ruminant:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | ruminate |
ruminant mammals.
Examples of ruminant
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About 90 per cent of the country's methane emissions come from ruminant belches.
From the newscientist.com
The white-tailed deer is a ruminant, which means it has a four-chambered stomach.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Macrolides are not to be used on non-ruminant herbivores, such as horses and rabbits.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The disease is transmitted through feeding ruminant remains to cattle.
From the latimes.com
To our knowledge, the goat is the first small ruminant whose genome has been sequenced.
From the nature.com
Tripe is the first or second stomach of a ruminant, particularly an ox.
From the guardian.co.uk
In ruminant grazing animals, the cecum empties into the spiral colon.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Under such conditions, they are able to change their feeding strategy to that of a ruminant.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The wild-eyed ruminant was wrestled onto the load bed and tied securely, allowing us to proceed.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
- Related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
- Physiologically, a ruminant is a mammal of the order Artiodactyla that digests plant-based food by initially softening it within the animal's first stomach, then regurgitating the semi-digested mass, now known as cud, and chewing it again. ...
- An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer; Chewing cud
- (ruminants) Animals that have four-chambered stomachs, even-toed hooves, and chew their cud. Ruminant animals include cows, sheep, goats, antelope, deer, and camels.
- (ruminants) plant-eating animals with a multicompartment stomach such as cows and sheep
- (RUMINANTS) The group of Quadrupeds which ruminate or chew the cud, such as oxen, sheep, and deer. They have divided hoofs, and are destitute of front teeth in the upper jaw.
- (Ruminants) Hooved livestock with multiple stomachs and which chew their cud.
- (Ruminants) One of a group of grazing animals including cattle, bison, sheep, goat, which have digestive systems particularly adapted to grasses.
