ruminant

Converse of object

• feed: The main source of methane is ruminants fed on low quality, fibrous diets.
• base: In agriculture, margin was adversely impacted in wheat based animal feeds but improved in sugar beet based ruminant feeds.
• infect: Little is known, however, of the nature of immune response in ruminants infected with T.evansi.

Adjective modifier

• wild: By 1896 large numbers of cattle and wild ruminants were dying on both banks of the Zambesi River.
• domestic: This would allow Ghanaian vets to determine the epidemiology of Cowdria infection in domestic ruminants kept under different husbandry systems.
• small: The Syrian steppe used to provide up to 60 % of the diet for the country's small ruminants.
• other: Characteristic for cows is their fluid dung, in contrast to the solid dung of other ruminants like sheep or deer.
• large: Still they were fortunate enough to kill two of the large American ruminants, seldom met with in such elevated latitudes.
• exotic: All the exotic ruminants appear to be linked to the BSE epidemic via the consumption of contaminated feed.

Modifies a noun

• feedingstuffs: The samples of ruminant feedingstuffs are being analyzed by the ELISA technique.
• offal: These were the recycling of animal waste, biological medicinal products, research, and the use of ruminant offal in baby food.
• ban: The ruminant feed ban was to come into force on 18 July.
• ration: The ruminant feed ban prohibited the inclusion of ruminant protein in ruminant rations.
• protein: France banned the feeding of ruminant protein to cattle on 13 August.
• feed: Animal feed The Committee was asked to look at the issue of ruminant feed.

Used with adjective complement

• contain: Farmers could no longer feed their cattle feed containing ruminant MBM.

Noun used with modifier

• petits: Export potential Airborne Peste des petits ruminants - an emerging plague?
• host: It is readily absorbed from the reticulo-rumen and is readily used by the host ruminant.
• adult: Two other disease complexes of adult ruminants related to energy metabolism have been identified.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: The workshop focused on the problems of tannins in animals, particularly ruminant, nutrition.