ruminant (redirected from Ruminants)

ruminant /ru·mi·nant/ (roo´mi-nant)

1. chewing the cud.

2. one of the order of animals, including cattle, sheep, goats, deer, and antelopes, which have a stomach with four complete cavities (rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum), through which the food passes in digestion.

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ru·mi·nant (rm-nnt)

n.

Any of various hoofed, even-toed, usually horned mammals of the suborder Ruminantia, such as cattle, sheep, goats, deer, and giraffes, characteristically having a stomach divided into four compartments and chewing a cud consisting of regurgitated, partially digested food.

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ruminant

1. member of the mammalian suborder Ruminantia.

2. an animal that has a stomach with four complete cavities, and that characteristically regurgitates undigested food from the rumen and masticates it when at rest.

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ruminant forestomach

see forestomachs.

ruminant ketosis

see pregnancy toxemia, acetonemia.

ruminant stomachs

include the forestomach (reticulum, rumen, omasum) and abomasum.