Definitions for ruminant

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ruminant ru·mi·nant

Spelling: [roo-muh-nuh nt]

IPA: /ˈru mə nənt/

Ruminant is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in ruminant (aimnnrtu).

Definitions for ruminant

noun

1. any even-toed, hoofed mammal of the suborder Ruminantia, being comprised of cloven-hoofed, cud-chewing quadrupeds, and including, besides domestic cattle, bison, buffalo, deer, antelopes, giraffes, camels, and chevrotains.

adjective

1. ruminating; chewing the cud.
2. contemplative; meditative:

Origin of ruminant

1655-65; Latin rūminant- (stem of rūmināns, present participle of rūminārī, rūmināre to chew cud, meditate), equivalent to rūmin- (stem of rūmen) rumen + -ant-

Examples for ruminant

This is the paunch, or first portion of the ruminant stomach of the ox.

From the same stratum, also, they drew up the lower half of the humerus of a ruminant, at first referred to a hyæna.

Australia has no apes, monkeys or baboons, and no ruminant beasts.

I believe that no other ruminant is harder to kill outright.

It is a ruminant, or an animal which has three or four stomachs.

It was that of a steady grinding of a ruminant animal feeding.

These compartments are quite different, however, from those seen in a ruminant's stomach, such as that of the Ox.

And, contrariwise, there is tripe—“the stomach of the ox or of some other ruminant.”

His mouth moves sideways like that of a ruminant; you would imagine he was masticating a piece of tough steak.

While they were talking, William Sanders came up, chewing like a ruminant.