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ruminant
adjective
- chewing the cud
- of the cud-chewing animals
- meditative; thoughtful
noun
any of the suborders (Ruminantia and Tylopoda) of four-footed, cud-chewing artiodactylous mammals: cattle, buffalo, goat, deer, antelope, and giraffe have a stomach with four chambers (the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum) and the camel, llama, and chevrotain have a stomach with three chambers
Related Forms:
- ruminantly adverb
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