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Rumen   Listen
noun
Rumen  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag.
2.
The cud of a ruminant.





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"Rumen" Quotes from Famous Books



... more complicated than in other animals, and I must therefore attempt to describe briefly and as clearly as I can the construction of the ruminating stomach. Taking the ox as a typical specimen, we find four well-defined chambers varying in size. The first of these is the rumen or paunch, in which the unmasticated food is stored; it is a large sac partly bent on itself, and narrowing towards its junction with the oesophagus or gullet, and the entrance into the second chamber. It is lined with a mucous membrane, which is covered ...
— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale


Words linked to "Rumen" :   stomach, first stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket, ruminant, ruminate


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