ruminant

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Latin rumino, to chew the cud

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹuːmɪnənt/

Adjective

ruminant (comparative more ruminant, superlative most ruminant)

1. Chewing cud.

Translations

chewing cud

• Catalan: remugant (ca)
• Danish: drøvtyggende (da)
• Finnish: märehtivä (fi)
• German: wiederkäuend (de)
• Manx: aachaignagh (gv)
• Norwegian: drøvtyggende (no)

• Portuguese: ruminante (pt)
• Russian: жвачный (ru) (žváčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-chagnach (gd)
• Slovak: prežúvavý (sk) m
• Spanish: rumiante (es)

Noun

ruminant (plural ruminants)

1. An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:ruminant

Translations

artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud

• Catalan: remugant (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Simplified Chinese: 反刍动物

  Traditional Chinese: 反芻動物

  Pinyin: fanchi-dongwu

• Czech: přežvýkavec (cs) m
• Danish: drøvtygger c
• Dutch: herkauwer (nl)
• Esperanto: remaĉulo (eo)
• Faroese: jóturdýr (fo) n
• Finnish: märehtijä (fi)
• French: ruminant (fr) m, ruminante (fr) f
• German: Wiederkäuer (de) m
• Greek: μηρυκαστικό (el) (mērykastikó)
• Italian: ruminante (it)
• Japanese:

  Kanji: 反芻動物

  Hiragana: はんすうどうぶつ

  Romaji: hansūdōbutsu

• Korean: 반추 동물 (banchu dongmur)
• Latin: ruminans nominative, ruminantis genitive
• Malay: ruminan (ms)
• Manx: aachaignagh (gv) m, caignagh keerey (gv) m
• Norwegian: drøvtygger (no) m
• Polish: przeżuwacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: ruminante (pt) m and f
• Russian: жвачное (ru) (žvačnoje) животное (ru) (životnoje) n
• Serbo-Croatian: преживар (sh) (preživar) m
• Slovak: prežúvavec (sk) m
• Slovene: prežvekovalec m and f
• Spanish: rumiante (es) m and f
• Swedish: idisslare (sv)

Related terms

• ruminate

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁy.mi.nɑ̃/, X-SAMPA: /Ry.mi.nA~/

Adjective

ruminant m (feminine ruminante, masculine plural ruminants, feminine plural ruminantes)

1. ruminant

Noun

ruminant m (plural ruminants)

1. ruminant

Verb

ruminant

1. Present participle of ruminer.

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Latin

Verb

rūminant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rūminō