Ruminant Definition & Meaning
ruminant
- adjective
- related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
- noun
- any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
Words that rhyme with ruminant
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