Definitions for Ruminantia
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1. Ruminantia, suborder Ruminantianoun

   cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels

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1. ruminantia

   Ruminants (suborder Ruminantia) are hoofed herbivorous grazing or browsing mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions. The process, which takes place in the front part of the digestive system and therefore is called foregut fermentation, typically requires the fermented ingesta (known as cud) to be regurgitated and chewed again. The process of rechewing the cud to further break down plant matter and stimulate digestion is called rumination. The word "ruminant" comes from the Latin ruminare, which means "to chew over again". The roughly 200 species of ruminants include both domestic and wild species. Ruminating mammals include cattle, all domesticated and wild bovines, goats, sheep, giraffes, deer, gazelles, and antelopes. It has also been suggested that notoungulates also relied on rumination, as opposed to other atlantogenates that rely on the more typical hindgut fermentation, though this is not entirely certain.Taxonomically, the suborder Ruminantia is a lineage of herbivorous artiodactyls that includes the most advanced and widespread of the world's ungulates. The suborder Ruminantia includes six different families: Tragulidae, Giraffidae, Antilocapridae, Moschidae, Cervidae, and Bovidae.

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1. ruminantia

   Ruminantia is a taxonomic category, or suborder, within the order Artiodactyla that includes many species of herbivorous, cud-chewing mammals with a unique digestive system which comprises a four-chambered stomach. This group includes animals such as cows, sheep, goats, deer, giraffes, and antelopes. This special digestive system allows them to break down and extract nutrients from plant matter more efficiently than other herbivores.

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1. Ruminantia

   a division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies

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1. Ruminantia

   Ruminantia includes many of the well-known large grazing or browsing mammals: among them cattle, goats, sheep, deer, and antelope. All members of the Ruminantia are ruminants: they digest food in two steps, chewing and swallowing in the normal way to begin with, and then regurgitating the semi-digested cud to re-chew it and thus extract the maximum possible food value. Not all ruminants belong to the Ruminantia. Camels and llamas are among the exceptions, a suborder known as Tylopoda. Also, there are a number of other large grazing mammals that, while not strictly ruminants, have similar adaptations for surviving on large quantities of low-grade food. Kangaroos and horses are examples. ⁕ORDER ARTIODACTYLA ⁕Suborder Suina: pigs and peccaries ⁕Suborder Tylopoda: camels and llamas ⁕Suborder Cetruminantia: ruminants and whales and hippos ⁕unranked Ruminantia ⁕Infraorder Tragulina ⁕Family †Prodremotheriidae ⁕Family †Hypertragulidae ⁕Family †Praetragulidae ⁕Family †Protoceratidae ⁕Family Tragulidae: chevrotains, 6 living species in 4 genera ⁕Family †Archaeomerycidae ⁕Family †Lophiomerycidae ⁕Infraorder Pecora ⁕Family Cervidae: deer and moose, 49 living species in 16 generaFamily †GelocidaeFamily †PalaeomerycidaeFamily †HoplitomerycidaeFamily †ClimacoceratidaeFamily Giraffidae: giraffe and okapi, 2 living species in 2 generaFamily Antilocapridae: pronghorn, one living species in one genusFamily †LeptomerycidaeFamily Moschidae: musk deer, 4 living species in one genusFamily Bovidae: cattle, goats, sheep, and antelope, 135 living species in 48 genera

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   The numerical value of Ruminantia in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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   The numerical value of Ruminantia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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