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Here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing
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rumen
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The rumen , also known as a paunch , forms the larger part of the reticulorumen , which is the first chamber in the alimentary canal of ruminant animals. It serves as the primary site for microbial fermentation of ingested feed. The smaller part of the ...
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n. the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing [syn: first stomach ] [also: rumina (pl)]
Usage examples of rumen.
But as he poised his knife, the wall of the rumen suddenly bulged out through the skin incision.
He was reaching back for his knife when, like a live thing, the rumen again came leaping and surging out.
I put the stethoscope over the rumen and instead of the normal surge and bubble of the healthy stomach I heard only a deathly silence.
Along the floor of the rumen apples and pears were spread in layers, some of them bitten but most of them whole and intact.
One sprawled on its side groaning, rumen and intestines spilling onto the asphalt.
It would be a simple thing for the Oversoul to make desert travelers get stupid whenever they thought of turning toward the Rumen Sea near here.
Plunging my arm deep below what I now knew was the rumen, I encountered a smooth and mighty organ lying on the abdominal floor.
The rumen was working well, seething and bubbling under my stethoscope, and when I pinched her withers she did not grunt just swivelled an anxiety-ridden eye in my direction before turning her attention to the wall again.
Some of them we leave unmarried, as though there were no match for them, which is surely needless, especially when there are certain unmarried goddesses, as Populonia, or Fulgora, or the goddess Rumina, for whom I am not astonished that suitors have been awanting.
The smooth wall of the rumen (the large first stomach) lay exposed.
I am unwilling to say that the giving of the pap to sucking animals might have become Juno rather than Jupiter, especially when there was the goddess Rumina to help and to serve her in this work.