ruminant has definitions from the field of zoology
1
[ adjective ] related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud

Examples

"ruminant mammals"

Related terms

nonruminant Ruminantia

2
[ noun ] (zoology) any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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