Ruminant

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024595",
  "term": "Ruminant",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Mammal whose stomach has four parts-rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. These animals chew their cud or regurgitate partially digested food for further breakdown in the mouth. Ruminant animals include cattle, sheep, goats, deer and camels.\n\n2. An animal with a stomach that has four compartments, and a more complex digestive system than other mammals. Ruminants include cattle, sheep, goats, deer, bison, elk, and camels.\n\n3. Hooved mammals possessing a rumen or first stomach, from which food or a cud is regurgitated for further chewing. Includes deer, elk, sheep, cattle, etc.",
  "subject": "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides",
  "references": [
    "Ag 101 Glossary of American Agriculture",
    "USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Glossary",
    "USGS Field Manual of Wildlife Disease Glossary at http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/appendices.pdf"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/ruminant/"
}