ruminants

Definitions of ruminants
  1. noun
    any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
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    bovidés
    hollow-horned ruminants
    cerf
    distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
    girafe
    tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
    bovin
    any of various members of the genus Bos
    buffle
    any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
    bison
    any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
    mouton
    woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
    chèvre
    any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
    antilope
    graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
    cerf
    common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
    élan
    large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
    chevreuil
    small graceful deer of Eurasian woodlands having small forked antlers
    renne
    Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
    okapi
    similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs
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    artiodactyles
    placental mammal having hooves with an even number of functional toes on each foot
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