Monogastric vs. Ruminant

Monogastricadjective

(zoology) Having a simple single-chambered stomach.

Monogastricnoun

(zoology) Any organism with a simple single-chambered stomach.

Monogastricadjective

Having but a single stomach.

Monogastric

A monogastric organism has a simple single-chambered stomach (one stomach). Examples of monogastric herbivores are horses, pigs, rabbits, gerbils, and hamsters.

Ruminantadjective

Chewing cud.

Ruminantadjective

Pondering; ruminative.

Ruminantnoun

An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

Ruminantadjective

Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

Ruminantnoun

A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.

Ruminantnoun

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

Ruminantadjective

related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud;

Ruminantnoun

an even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives.

Ruminantnoun

a contemplative person; a person given to meditation

Ruminantadjective

of or belonging to ruminants

Ruminant

Ruminants (suborder Ruminantia) are large hoofed herbivorous grazing or browsing mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions. The process, which takes place in the front part of the digestive system and therefore is called foregut fermentation, typically requires the fermented ingesta (known as cud) to be regurgitated and chewed again.