- ruminant - related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
Antonym: nonruminant
- ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
--1 is a kind of even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl, artiodactyl mammal
--1 is a member of Ruminantia, suborder Ruminantia
--1 has parts:
--1 has particulars:rumen, first stomach; reticulum, second stomach; psalterium, omasum, third stomach; abomasum, fourth stomach pollard; bovid; pronghorn, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope, American antelope, Antilocapra americana; deer, cervid; chevrotain, mouse deer; giraffe, camelopard, Giraffa camelopardalis Derived form: verb ruminate1