ruminant
ruminant
Definition
ru·mi·nant (ro̵̅o̅′mə nənt)
adjective
- chewing the cud
- of the cud-chewing animals
- meditative; thoughtful
Etymology: L ruminans, prp. of L ruminare, to ruminate < rumen, rumen
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
ru′·mi·nantly adverb
ruminant
Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near ruminant
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- Rumelia
- rumbustious
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- rumble seat
- rumble
- rumba
- Rumania
- rumaki
- ruminate
- rummage
- rummage sale
- rummer
- rummy
- rumor
- rumored
- rumormonger
- rump
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