An animal that ruminates (chews the cud); a ruminant. Now rare.
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| 释义 | the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant (38) ruminator1598 An animal that ruminates (chews the cud); a ruminant. Now rare. ruminant1661 An animal that chews the cud; (Zoology, also with capital initial) any of a group of artiodactyl mammals, including cattle, sheep, camels, and… cud-chewer1719 With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which cud expresses the object of the underlying verb, as cud-chewer, cud-ch… ruminal1844 = ruminant, n. 1. Obsolete. rare. Subcategories:— parts of (34) |
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