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ruminant
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ruminant /ru·mi·nant/ (roo´mĭ-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.

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.

ruminant
[ro̅o̅′minənt]
Etymology: L, ruminare, to chew again
pertaining to animals that chew their cud and to human infants that may regurgitate and reswallow a meal.

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.

ruminant forestomach
ruminant ketosis
see pregnancy toxemia, acetonemia.
ruminant stomachs
include the forestomach (reticulum, rumen, omasum) and abomasum.


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