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词汇 ruminant
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Definition of ruminant in English:

ruminant

noun ˈruːmɪnəntˈrumənənt
  • 1An even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives.

    反刍动物

    Suborder Ruminantia, order Artiodactyla: six families

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the ruminants (cows, deer, and others) these bacteria live in a series of auxiliary stomachs ‘upstream’ of the true stomach.
    • In 2003, the United States exported approximately $7.5bn worth of beef, beef products, cattle and other ruminants and ruminant by-products.
    • It provides early spring forage not only for cattle and sheep, but for wild ruminants as well, including deer, bison, elk, and moose.
    • The giraffe is the biggest ruminant and the tallest mammal in the world.
    • Accurate and precise estimates of forage energy content are required to formulate diets properly for lactating dairy cows and other ruminants.
    • So mammals are unable to digest cellulose, except some ruminants that have cellulase-secreting bacteria in their rumens.
    • Note that cattle are ruminants and can convert inedible grains such as grass into protein and that they do not require to be fed soy and other grains.
    • Forests are more than trees, of course, and along with its timber Afghanistan is at risk of losing its wolves, snow leopards, bears, and foxes, as well as alpine ruminants like Marco Polo sheep and ibex.
    • Beef cows, brood ewes, and most other ruminants do not require consistent quality forage, and longer grazing periods should suffice.
    • Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
    • The other new rule tightens restrictions on ruminant feed, eliminating mammal blood, poultry litter and table scraps from the list of items that can legally be fed to cattle and other ruminants.
    • Because goats will consume a wider variety of plants than other commercial ruminants, they may be able to survive where cattle cannot.
    • The report notes that the key to preventing BSE is to ensure that meat and bone meal from ruminants is not be fed back to ruminants.
    • Like ruminants, poultry and pigs raised on pasture also get to enjoy a less stressful life.
    • The ability of ruminants to store partially chewed food in one stomach chamber and to return it to the mouth for further mastication explains why they do not need, and do not have, incisors in the upper jaw.
    • Sheep and goats are ruminants and are genomically similar to cows.
    • Millions of cattle and other ruminants pass so much gas every day, they now account for one-sixth of global methane emissions.
    • The feeding of ruminant meat and bone meal to other ruminants had been a common practice in many countries until British experts determined that as the cause of BSE infection in cattle.
    • In 1997 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency banned the feeding of recycled products from ruminant animals back to other ruminants, like cattle, sheep, goats, bison, elk or deer.
    • Although it has been widely assumed that ruminants, by virtue of rumen bacteria, do possess adequate phytase activity, there is evidence to the contrary.
  • 2A contemplative person; a person given to meditation.

    好沉思的人,沉思默想的人

    he was destined to become a ruminant, a haunter of libraries
adjective ˈruːmɪnəntˈrumənənt
  • Of or belonging to ruminants.

    (属于)反刍动物的;沉思默想的;反复思考的

    a ruminant animal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Forage crops and native rangelands are vital to U.S. livestock interests, since they're the main feed staple of all ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.
    • He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria.
    • The U.S. imposed the ban on all Canadian ruminant products and by-products in May, following the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, on a farm in Alberta.
    • Caribou and muskox are included in the ruminant category, which means Nunavut country food products can't be sold overseas until the ban is lifted
    • Groups of ruminant steers had settled down in the shade of old oaks.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin ruminant- 'chewing over again', from the verb ruminari, from rumen 'throat' (see rumen).

Rhymes

illuminant

Definition of ruminant in US English:

ruminant

nounˈro͞omənəntˈrumənənt
  • 1An even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives.

    反刍动物

    Suborder Ruminantia, order Artiodactyla: six families

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because goats will consume a wider variety of plants than other commercial ruminants, they may be able to survive where cattle cannot.
    • Forests are more than trees, of course, and along with its timber Afghanistan is at risk of losing its wolves, snow leopards, bears, and foxes, as well as alpine ruminants like Marco Polo sheep and ibex.
    • Experts agree that hippos belong to the mammalian order Artiodactyla, a group of even-toed, hoofed creatures whose extant representatives include camels, pigs and ruminants such as cows.
    • In the ruminants (cows, deer, and others) these bacteria live in a series of auxiliary stomachs ‘upstream’ of the true stomach.
    • Like ruminants, poultry and pigs raised on pasture also get to enjoy a less stressful life.
    • The giraffe is the biggest ruminant and the tallest mammal in the world.
    • Beef cows, brood ewes, and most other ruminants do not require consistent quality forage, and longer grazing periods should suffice.
    • In 1997 the Canadian Food Inspection Agency banned the feeding of recycled products from ruminant animals back to other ruminants, like cattle, sheep, goats, bison, elk or deer.
    • The feeding of ruminant meat and bone meal to other ruminants had been a common practice in many countries until British experts determined that as the cause of BSE infection in cattle.
    • The other new rule tightens restrictions on ruminant feed, eliminating mammal blood, poultry litter and table scraps from the list of items that can legally be fed to cattle and other ruminants.
    • The ability of ruminants to store partially chewed food in one stomach chamber and to return it to the mouth for further mastication explains why they do not need, and do not have, incisors in the upper jaw.
    • In 2003, the United States exported approximately $7.5bn worth of beef, beef products, cattle and other ruminants and ruminant by-products.
    • Millions of cattle and other ruminants pass so much gas every day, they now account for one-sixth of global methane emissions.
    • Note that cattle are ruminants and can convert inedible grains such as grass into protein and that they do not require to be fed soy and other grains.
    • So mammals are unable to digest cellulose, except some ruminants that have cellulase-secreting bacteria in their rumens.
    • Sheep and goats are ruminants and are genomically similar to cows.
    • Although it has been widely assumed that ruminants, by virtue of rumen bacteria, do possess adequate phytase activity, there is evidence to the contrary.
    • The report notes that the key to preventing BSE is to ensure that meat and bone meal from ruminants is not be fed back to ruminants.
    • Accurate and precise estimates of forage energy content are required to formulate diets properly for lactating dairy cows and other ruminants.
    • It provides early spring forage not only for cattle and sheep, but for wild ruminants as well, including deer, bison, elk, and moose.
  • 2A contemplative person; a person given to meditation.

    好沉思的人,沉思默想的人

adjectiveˈro͞omənəntˈrumənənt
  • Of or belonging to ruminants.

    (属于)反刍动物的;沉思默想的;反复思考的

    a ruminant animal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Forage crops and native rangelands are vital to U.S. livestock interests, since they're the main feed staple of all ruminant animals tied to the meat and dairy industries.
    • Groups of ruminant steers had settled down in the shade of old oaks.
    • The U.S. imposed the ban on all Canadian ruminant products and by-products in May, following the discovery of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, on a farm in Alberta.
    • He was interested in improving digestive processes within the rumen, the first of the four stomachs of ruminant animals, where cellulose is broken down by bacteria.
    • Caribou and muskox are included in the ruminant category, which means Nunavut country food products can't be sold overseas until the ban is lifted

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin ruminant- ‘chewing over again’, from the verb ruminari, from rumen ‘throat’ (see rumen).

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