rumination
1. The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it. (Arbuthnot) ...
ruminant
An animal, such as a cow or a sheep, with an elaborate, multicompartmentalized stomach specialized for an herbivorous diet.
ruminant. Any of the hoofed mammals (including cattle, deer, sheep) that chew the cud.
runner. Stolon of a strawberry plant, on which a daughter plant may develop.
rumin
A branch of the esophagus where unchewed food is temporarily stored until it is regurgitated tothe mouth for chewing.
S
sagittal section
a longitudinal section through the median vertical plane.
Ruminants have cotyledonary placenta, which is really many small placentas where the fetus' cotyledons interface with the dams' caruncle, forming a placentome.
Carnivores have a zonary placenta.
ruminant Cud-chewing artiodactyl mammals with a complex four-chambered stomach.
ruminant animals Cud-chewing animals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, and buffalo, with multichambered stomachs in which cellulose is digested with the aid of bacteria.
George Church began to ruminate on the ideas that culminated in multiplex sequencing. He said later that discussions with Maynard Olson, Richard Myers, and others helped him crystallize his inchoate ideas.
Bacteria give yogurt its tangy flavor and sourdough bread its sour taste. They make it possible for ruminant animals (cows, sheep, goats) to digest plant cellulose and for some plants, ...
Many methanogenic archaea are found in the digestive tracts of animals such as ruminants, termites, and humans.
We've been counting and measuring everything in them year after year after year for 20-some years. Nobody else does this kind of thing. People aren't out there counting all the species in other ruminant stands.
 See also: Organ, Trans, Environment, Animal, Human
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