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Noun Concept
Categories: Even-toed ungulates, Ruminants, Articles with short description, Cetruminantia, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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Ruminantia  suborder Ruminantia  ruminant  chewing the cud  Digestive rumination  rumination
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Cattle, bison, sheep, goats, antelopes, deer, chevrotains, giraffes, camels Open English WordNet
Ruminants are herbivorous grazing or browsing artiodactyls belonging to the suborder Ruminantia that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions. Wikipedia
Ruminantia is a taxon within the order Artiodactyla that includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing mammals such as cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and antelope. Wikipedia
suborder of ruminants Wikidata