first stomach

1. 1.

   the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing

   Synonymsrumen

   Broaderstomach

   Part ofruminant

Questions about first stomach

What does first stomach mean?

first stomach means "the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing".

What is another word for first stomach?

Close synonyms include rumen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first stomach a common word?

first stomach is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.