ruminant
Example Sentences
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Some 2,000 people protested the export ban -- imposed by the European Union due to the highly contagious small ruminant plague -- in front of the Romanian government building in Bucharest.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Cattle and other ruminant livestock contribute to climate change by releasing methane as they digest plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
We hear “the strangled ungulate blurt” of a distressed elk, “the ruminant crunch” of a grazing sheep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
"These results help us understand the evolutionary history of horns and antlers and could suggest that differences in other ruminant cranial appendages, like ossicones and pronghorns, are also elaborations on a shared ancestral cranial appendage."
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another.
From "1984" by George Orwell
