Rumen

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rumen \Ru"men\, n. [L. rumen, - inis, the throat.]
     1. (Anat.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the
        fardingbag. See Illust. below.
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     2. The cud of a ruminant.


        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rumen
       n : the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here
           food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for
           chewing [syn: {first stomach}]
       [also: {rumina} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "rumen":
     abdomen, abomasum, bay window, beerbelly, belly, breadbasket, craw,
     crop, diaphragm, embonpoint, first stomach, gizzard, gullet, gut,
     honeycomb stomach, kishkes, manyplies, maw, midriff, omasum,
     paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag,
     reticulum, second stomach, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly,
     third stomach, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence