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Abomasus :: Abomasus (n.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia..

Psalterium :: Psalterium (n.) The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

Sweetbread :: Sweetbread (n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus..

Muffle :: Muffle (n.) The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

Camelopard :: Camelopard (n.) An African ruminant; the giraffe. See Giraffe.

Llama :: Llama (n.) A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes..

Reed :: Reed (n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

Reticulum :: Reticulum (n.) The second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach..

Deer :: Deer (n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison..

Tubicorn :: Tubicorn (n.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

Capra :: Capra (n.) A genus of ruminants, including the common goat..

Cervus :: Cervus (n.) A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species..

Farding-bag :: Farding-bag (n.) The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen..

Ruminant :: Ruminant (n.) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.

Taurus :: Taurus (n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

Ruminantia :: Ruminantia (n. pl.) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies..

Horn :: Horn (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed..

Plenicorn :: Plenicorn (n.) A ruminant having solid horns or antlers, as the deer..

Rumen :: Rumen (n.) The cud of a ruminant.

Ruminant :: Ruminant (a.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

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