Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A series or section of artiodactyl ungulate mammals; the ruminants or ruminating animals, or hoofed quadrupeds that chew the cud.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels
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Examples
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And then on to ruminant, which verified my initial rumgumption about the cud-chewing, but included, also, a reference to the "ruminantia," which are "a division of even-toed, hoofed mammals" including some which do not chew the cud!
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Of the non-ruminantia we have only the Suidae -- the peccaries belonging to America, and the hippopotami to Africa.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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The digestive system of the ruminantia is more complicated in structure than that of any other class of animals; and, owing to this complexity, and the consequent difficulty of investigating it, its nature and functions have been less perfectly understood.
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We will begin, therefore, with the animals belonging to the ruminantia -- the eighth in natural order; taking next the carnivora -- the fifth; and the smaller rodentia -- the sixth; while the birds and reptiles will follow in due course.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Finally, the pliocene gives us for the first time, oxen, deer, camels, and other specimens of the ruminantia.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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The rasorial type comprehends most of the animals which become domesticated and useful to man, as, first, the fowls which give a name to the type, the ungulata, and more particularly the ruminantia, among quadrupeds, and the dog among the ferae.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Liberals tend to be more optimistic about the prospects for world order, and they perceive the common humanity ruminantia of the sheep and the goats.
Cranmer 2008
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_white_; and granting that it was invariably black, other genera of the ruminantia have the muzzle black: and therefore it cannot be said to be
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