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SUBORDER RUMINANTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suborder Ruminantia mean? 

SUBORDER RUMINANTIA (noun)
  The noun SUBORDER RUMINANTIA has 1 sense:

1. cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camelsplay

  Familiarity information: SUBORDER RUMINANTIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SUBORDER RUMINANTIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cattle; bison; sheep; goats; antelopes; deer; chevrotains; giraffes; camels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Ruminantia; suborder Ruminantia

Hypernyms ("suborder Ruminantia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "suborder Ruminantia"):

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

Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)

Antilocapridae; family Antilocapridae (comprising only the pronghorns)

Cervidae; family Cervidae (deer: reindeer; moose or elks; muntjacs; roe deer)

family Tragulidae; Tragulidae (chevrotains)

Holonyms ("suborder Ruminantia" is a member of...):

Artiodactyla; order Artiodactyla (an order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes)


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