Definitions for ruminants

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ruminants ru·mi·nant

Spelling: [roo-muh-nuh nt]

IPA: /ˈru mə nənt/

Ruminants is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 496 anagrams from letters in ruminants (aimnnrstu).

Definitions for ruminants

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 ruminants

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 ruminants

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.