Ruminant

4 definitions found

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

  Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, n. (Zool.)
     A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
     [1913 Webster]

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



  Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, a. [L. ruminans, -antis, p. pr.: cf. F.
     ruminant. See {Ruminate}.] (Zool.)
     Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been
     swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ruminant
       adj : related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder
             Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud;
             "ruminant mammals" [ant: {nonruminant}]
       n : any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach
           divided into four (occasionally three) compartments

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

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruminant":
     amphibian, aquatic, asinine, biped, bovid, bovine, canine,
     cannibal, caprid, caprine, carnivore, chewing, cogitative,
     cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual,
     conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, cosmopolite, cowish,
     cowlike, cud-chewing, deerlike, deliberating, deliberative,
     equestrian, equine, excogitating, feline, gnawer, goatish,
     goatlike, herbivore, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, ideative,
     insectivore, introspective, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian,
     manducatory, marsupial, marsupialian, masticatory, meditating,
     meditative, mental, mulish, museful, musing, noetic, omnivore,
     ovine, pensive, piggish, pondering, prehensive, primate, quadruped,
     reflecting, reflective, reptile, rodent, ruminating, ruminative,
     scavenger, serious, sheepish, sheeplike, sober, speculative,
     swinish, thinking, thought, thoughtful, ungulate, varmint, vermin,
     vertebrate, wistful