ruminant

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Latin rumino, to chew the cud

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) Norwegian: drøvtyggende (no)

Portuguese: ruminante (pt) Russian: жвачный (ru) 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: hansūtōbutsu Korean: 반추 동물 (banchu dongmur) Latin: ruminans nominative, ruminantis genitive Norwegian: drøvtygger (no) m. Polish: przeżuwacz (pl) m. Portuguese: ruminante (pt) m. and f. Russian: жвачное (ru) животное (ru) n. 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/, SAMPA: /Ry.mi.nA~/

Adjective

ruminant m. (f. ruminante, m. plural ruminants, f. 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