ro͝o'mən
first-stomach
the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing
Any of various even-toed hoofed mammals of the suborder Ruminantia. Ruminants usually have a stomach divided into four compartments (called the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum), and chew a cud consisting of regurgitated, partially digested food. Ruminants include cattle, sheep, goats, deer, giraffes, antelopes, and camels.
reticulo-rumen
ruminal
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abomasum
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