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RUMINANTIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels
Synonyms:
Ruminantia; suborder Ruminantia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ruminantia" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Ruminantia"):
ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)
Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)
Antilocapridae; family Antilocapridae (comprising only the pronghorns)
Cervidae; family Cervidae (deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer)
family Tragulidae; Tragulidae (chevrotains)
Holonyms ("Ruminantia" is a member of...):
Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)
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