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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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suborder Ruminantia

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"Ruminant" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the ruminant is to be read in his stomach. His real office is to digest, and in fact he devotes the best hours of his days to the perfecting of that beneficent labor, on which the life of so many weak stomachs depends. Have ...

— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace

... for it. You have hit the nail exactly—upon the nob, sir." Here, having found his whisker, Mr. Smivvle gave it a fierce wrench, loosed it, and clenching his fist, smote himself two blows in the region of the heart. "Sir," said he, "you behold in me a deserted and therefore doleful ruminant chewing reflection's solitary cud. And, sir,—it is a bitter cud, cursedly so,—wherein the milk of human kindness is curdled, sir, curdled most damnably, my dear Beverley! In a word, my friend Barry—wholly forgetful of those sacred bonds which the hammer of Adversity ...

— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al

... propositions, but a distinction as to our way of regarding them. Propositions may be read either in extension or intension. Thus when we say 'All cows are ruminants,' we may mean that the class, cow, is contained in the larger class, ruminant. This is reading the proposition in extension. Or we may mean that the attribute of chewing the cud is contained in, or accompanies, the attributes which make up our idea of 'cow.' This is reading the proposition in intension. What, as a matter of fact, we ...

— Deductive Logic • St. George Stock

Words linked to "Ruminant" : artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate, prongbuck, rumen, American antelope, mouse deer, nonruminant, pronghorn, second stomach, pollard, abomasum, cervid, Giraffa camelopardalis, deer, giraffe, first stomach, reticulum, artiodactyl, omasum, chevrotain, ruminate, pronghorn antelope, Antilocapra americana, bovid, fourth stomach, third stomach, camelopard, predigest, psalterium