Single Malts - and other odd Musings

Ruminants - white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known as the whitetail or Virginia deer


ruminant (ro͞oˈmə-nənt)

  • n.
    Any of various hoofed, even-toed, usually horned mammals of the suborder Ruminantia, such as cattle, sheep, goats, deer, and giraffes, characteristically having a stomach divided into four compartments and chewing a cud consisting of regurgitated, partially digested food.
  • adj.
    Characterized by the chewing of cud.
  • adj.
    Of or belonging to the Ruminantia.

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