Defenition of the word ruminant

• Defenition of the word ruminant

  • related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
  • 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

Meronymys for the word ruminant

• • abomasum
  • first stomach
  • fourth stomach
  • omasum
  • psalterium
  • reticulum
  • rumen
  • Ruminantia
  • second stomach
  • suborder Ruminantia
  • third stomach

Hyponyms for the word ruminant

• • American antelope
  • Antilocapra americana
  • bovid
  • camelopard
  • cervid
  • chevrotain
  • deer
  • Giraffa camelopardalis
  • giraffe
  • mouse deer
  • pollard
  • prongbuck
  • pronghorn
  • pronghorn antelope

Hypernyms for the word ruminant

• • artiodactyl
  • artiodactyl mammal
  • even-toed ungulate

Antonyms for the word ruminant

• • nonruminant

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