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Ruminant

adjective

Related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud.

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Ruminantia

suborder Ruminantia

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"Ruminant" Quotes from Famous Books

... lighter, was running, and occasionally foaming like brown beer. Beyond it heaved an arid bulk of hillside, the scant vegetation of which, scattered like patches of hair, made it look like the decaying hide of some huge antediluvian ruminant. On the dreariest part of the dreary slope rose the ruins of a tower, and crumbling walls ...

— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... she said in her ruminant tone. "Let them find out things for themselves. It is the only true wisdom, and nobody wants even cake thrust down his throat. Try the Lord's way, child. We are slower in accepting His good gifts than these people are to believe in yours, yet He waits ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... complexity reaching a maximum in ruminating forms. In the Suidae a cardiac diverticulum is partly constricted from the general cavity, forming an incipient condition of the rumen of true ruminants; the general cavity of the stomach shows an approach to the ruminant condition by the different characters of the lining wall in different areas. In the chevrotains, which in many other respects show conditions intermediate between nonruminant artiodactyles and true ruminants, the oesophagus opens into ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

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