Meaning | Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments. |
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Category of | predigest | digest (food) beforehand |
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ruminate | chew the cuds |
Member of | Ruminantia, suborder Ruminantia | cattle |
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Parts | abomasum, fourth stomach | The fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant |
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psalterium, omasum, third stomach | The third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant |
reticulum, second stomach | The second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant |
rumen, first stomach | The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant |
Narrower | bovid | hollow-horned ruminants |
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chevrotain, mouse deer | Very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa |
deer, cervid | distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers |
giraffe, camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis | tallest living quadruped |
pollard | A usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed |
pronghorn, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope, American antelope, Antilocapra americana | fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns |
Broader | even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal | placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot |
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Spanish | rumiante |
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Catalan | remugant, ruminant |
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Verbs | ruminate | chew the cuds |
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