NOUN (1)

1. any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud;
- Example: "ruminant mammals"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, a. [L. ruminans, -antis, p. pr.: cf. F.
   ruminant. See Ruminate.] (Zool.)
   Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been
   swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
   [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, n. (Zool.)
   A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ruminant
    adj 1: related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder
           Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud;
           "ruminant mammals" [ant: nonruminant]
    n 1: any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach
         divided into four (occasionally three) compartments

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruminant":
   amphibian, aquatic, asinine, biped, bovid, bovine, canine,
   cannibal, caprid, caprine, carnivore, chewing, cogitative,
   cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual,
   conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, cosmopolite, cowish,
   cowlike, cud-chewing, deerlike, deliberating, deliberative,
   equestrian, equine, excogitating, feline, gnawer, goatish,
   goatlike, herbivore, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, ideative,
   insectivore, introspective, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian,
   manducatory, marsupial, marsupialian, masticatory, meditating,
   meditative, mental, mulish, museful, musing, noetic, omnivore,
   ovine, pensive, piggish, pondering, prehensive, primate, quadruped,
   reflecting, reflective, reptile, rodent, ruminating, ruminative,
   scavenger, serious, sheepish, sheeplike, sober, speculative,
   swinish, thinking, thought, thoughtful, ungulate, varmint, vermin,
   vertebrate, wistful