Ruminant

What do we mean by ruminant?

Any of various hoofed, even-toed, usually horned mammals of the suborder Ruminantia, such as cattle, sheep, deer, antelopes, and giraffes, characteristically having a stomach divided into four compartments and chewing a cud that consists of plant food that is regurgitated when partially digested. noun

Any of various animals that ruminate but are not in the Ruminantia, including camels, alpacas, and llamas. noun

Characterized by the chewing of cud. adjective

Of or belonging to the Ruminantia. adjective

Meditative; contemplative. adjective

Ruminating; chewing the cud; belonging to the Ruminantia, or having their characters.

Hence, thoughtful; meditative; quiet.

An animal that chews the cud; any member of the Ruminantia. noun

Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia. adjective

A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia. noun

Chewing cud. adjective

An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer. noun

Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments noun

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

An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

Words that are spelled similarly to ruminant:
ruminant, luminant, ruminate, dominant, remnant, remenant, fulminant, rutilant, ruminants, rumina, ruminal, fumigant, culminant, laminant, urinant, rumican, rumint.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word ruminant:
abomasum, rumen, bloat, cud, digestion, anthropogenic, methane, fermentation, digestive, antelope, intestine, stomach, poultry, mammal, phosphorus, goats, livestock, pasture, gut, sheep, digest, goat, cows, grazing, animals, mammals, deer, horns, bacteria, greenhouse, cattle, pigs, fungi, emissions, nutrition, feed, milk, dairy, acids, meat, liver, diet, animal, grass, eggs, protein, horses, acid, species, blood, disease, genus, plant, gas, products, source, food, leaves, percent, typically, african, production.

Words that rhyme with ruminant:
luminant.

Adjectives that are often used to describe ruminant:
large, small, other, young, horned, only, extinct, wild, typical, non, true, huge, domestic, reaching, mature, american, monstrous, antediluvian, newborn, moluccan, male, feebler, ordinary, female, native, south, bearing, fed, normal, tropical, earliest, neonatal, ancestral, exotic, legged, numerous, coarse, inoffensive, powerful, placid, strange, african, pound, slow, excellent, like, larger.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ruminant:
animals, animal, species, stomach, nutrition, livestock, production, diets, mammals, digestion, feed, system, herbivores, metabolism, fats, systems, meat, rations, artiodactyls, feeding, tissues, tract, liver, fat, products, quadrupeds, protein, tissue, calf, population, ungulates, diet, proteins, type, gland, milk, quadruped, host, stomachs, stock, calves, mammal, physiology, meats, hosts, saliva, ban, forestomach, intestine, populations, origin, placenta, milks, ium, research, nutritionists, paratuberculosis, serum, productivity, leukocytes, cattle, gut, tribe, bloat, sector, grazers, lambs, sort, nematodes, embryos, foods, uterus, blood, pachyderms, relish, habits, creatures, feedstuffs, organism, manure, ketosis, stare, utilization, pestiviruses, bacteria, microorganisms, fun, feces, artiodactyles, erythrocytes.

Consonant match to ruminant:
remanent.

Words that sound like ruminant:
ruminant, remanent, remenant, ruminants, prominent, remnant, luminant, ruminate, permanent, resonant, remanence, terminant, remontant, dominant, imminent, eminent, immanent, illuminant, laminant, reminisced, remittent, rumina, remitment, arrangement, regiment, reminiscent, firmament, remnants, revenant, arraignment, raiment, armament, preeminent, regnant, criminate, rament, rumana, rumanian, pre-eminent, arrayment, romanist, ruinate, rangement, roumanian, brominate, prominente, romanones, arraiment, riemannian, luminate, the moment, emanant, comonent, remaining, rudiment, ruminates, ruminator, ornament, rampant, raymond, prominence, ramona, rhiannon, romanian, romana, rumen, romanced, romant, romina, ramayana, romany, roominess, rumania, renascent, rimini, romanians, ruman, remount, raymund, rosamond, rearmament, roumania, hominin, romanize, romaunt, permanents, raimond, raymonde, room-mate, aramean, renaissant, riemann sum, rumens, remandment, ringent, rommany, the minute.