Dictionary Check: ruminant

"ruminant" is a valid word!

Scrabble 10 points
Words with Friends 14 points

Definition

adjective

related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud

Example: "ruminant mammals"
Antonyms:
noun

any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments

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