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Adjective ruminant has 1 sense

ruminant - related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
Antonym: nonruminant

Noun ruminant has 1 sense

ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
--₁ is a kind of even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal
--₁ is a member of Ruminantia, suborder Ruminantia
--₁ has parts:
rumen, first stomach; reticulum, second stomach; psalterium, omasum, third stomach; abomasum, fourth stomach
--₁ has particulars:
pollard; bovid; pronghorn, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope, American antelope, Antilocapra americana; deer, cervid; chevrotain, mouse deer; giraffe, camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis

Derived form: verb ruminate₁