ruminant

1. Related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud (synset 302800744)
   "ruminant mammals"

1. Any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments (synset 102401652)
   associated with:

   • ruminate - chew the cuds
   • predigest - digest (food) beforehand
   is a type of: artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal, even-toed ungulate - placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
   subtypes:

   • pollard - a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed
   • bovid - hollow-horned ruminants
   • american antelope, antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope - fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
   • cervid, deer - distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
   • chevrotain, mouse deer - very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa
   • camelopard, giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe - tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
   belongs to: ruminantia, suborder ruminantia - cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels
   has:

   • first stomach, rumen - the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing
   • reticulum, second stomach - the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
   • omasum, psalterium, third stomach - the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
   • abomasum, fourth stomach - the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place

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