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ruminants

ruminants is the plural of ruminant.

Meaning of ruminant

Noun

ruminant (plural ruminants)

  1. Any artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud in the suborder Ruminantia, such as cattle or deer.
    • Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected
      From enemies that whisper to the blood;
      The scratch forgotten is the scratch infected;
      The ruminant, reason, chews a poisoned cud.1941, Theodore Roethke, “Prognosis”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC...

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Questions about ruminants

What is ruminants the plural of?
Ruminants is the plural of ruminant.

Words near ruminants in the dictionary

  1. ruminal
  2. ruminally
  3. ruminant
  4. ruminant meat
  5. ruminantly
  6. ruminants
  7. ruminate
  8. ruminated
  9. ruminatedst
  10. ruminately
  11. ruminates

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