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say it: ROO-muh-nuhnt
ruminant is a noun and adjective meaning "any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments". It is pronounced /ˈɹumənənt/ — ROO-muh-nuhnt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud
“ruminant mammals”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ruminant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.