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noun any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
adjective related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud
originFrom Latin rūmināns, rūminantem, present participle of rūminārī (“to chew the cud, ruminate”), from rūmen (“throat, gullet, rumen (first stomach of a ruminant)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0