ruminant

1. 1.

   any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments

   Broadereven-toed ungulate

   Narrowerpollardbovidpronghorndeerchevrotaingiraffe

   Part ofRuminantia

   Partsrumenreticulumpsalteriumabomasum

1. 1.

   related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud

   “ruminant mammals”

   Antonymsnonruminant

Other forms of ruminant

plural

ruminants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ruminant

What does ruminant mean?

ruminant means "any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ruminant?

ruminant has 3 syllables: ru-mi-nant. The stress falls on "ru". In IPA it is /ˈɹumənənt/.

What is the opposite of ruminant?

The recorded antonyms are nonruminant.

Is ruminant a common word?

ruminant 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.