The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing.
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Examples for "rumen "
Examples for "rumen "
1 The KHLL leaves could be fed to goats without compromising rumen metabolism.
2 These low SB intakes must not have substantially affected rumen pH.
3 We confirmed and further characterized the presence of leukocytes in the rumen fluids.
4 Between sixty and seventy per cent of the cellulose is digested in the rumen .
5 The rumen is the largest compartment, with a capacity of more than twenty gallons.
1 When its sharp tip touched the first stomach , it came to life and wriggled out of his hand.
2 To do this, they had to bring the partly chewed food from the first stomach to the mouth again.
3 But while the development of all is simultaneous, their culmination and supremacy is successive, first stomach and muscle, then brain and mind.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for first stomach