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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, a. [L. ruminans, -antis, p. pr.: cf F.
ruminant. See {Ruminate}.] (Zo["o]l.)
Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been
swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
ruminant
adj : related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder
Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud;
"ruminant mammals" [ant: {nonruminant}]
n : any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach
divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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