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

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

Goat :: Goat (n.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin..

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..

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

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..

Bovid :: Bovid (a.) Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.

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

Manifold :: Manifold (n.) The third stomach of a ruminant animal.

Pecora :: Pecora (n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle..

Sheep :: Sheep (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia..

Ruminantly :: Ruminantly (adv.) In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud..

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

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

Rumen :: Rumen (n.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.

Caprid :: Caprid (a.) Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type..

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

Sivatherium :: Sivatherium (n.) A genus of very large extinct ruminants found in the Tertiary formation of India. The snout was prolonged in the form of a proboscis. The male had four horns, the posterior pair being large and branched. It was allied to the antelopes, but very much larger than any exsisting species..

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

Cavicornia :: Cavicornia (n. pl.) A group of ruminants whose horns are hollow, and planted on a bony process of the front, as the ox..

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