rumiante

Definitions of rumiante
  1. noun
    any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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    bóvido
    hollow-horned ruminants
    antílope americano
    fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
    ciervo, cérvido, venado
    distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
    jirafa
    tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
    bovino
    any of various members of the genus Bos
    búfalo
    any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
    bisonte
    any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
    ganado lanar, ganado ovino, ovino
    woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
    ganado cabrío
    any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
    antílope
    graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
    cervatillo, cervato
    a young deer
    ciervo
    common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
    wapití
    large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
    alce, ante
    large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
    gamo
    small Eurasian deer
    corzo
    small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers
    reno
    Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
    almizclero, cabra de almizcle, cervatillo
    small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia; male secretes valued musk
    okapi, okapí
    similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs
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    artiodáctilo
    placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
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