ruminantia

And then on to ruminant, which verified my initial rumgumption about the cud-chewing, but included, also, a reference to the "ruminantia," which are "a division of even-toed, hoofed mammals" including some which do not chew the cud!

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3 1988

Of the non-ruminantia we have only the Suidae -- the peccaries belonging to America, and the hippopotami to Africa.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

The digestive system of the ruminantia is more complicated in structure than that of any other class of animals; and, owing to this complexity, and the consequent difficulty of investigating it, its nature and functions have been less perfectly understood.

Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. George Vasey 1857

We will begin, therefore, with the animals belonging to the ruminantia -- the eighth in natural order; taking next the carnivora -- the fifth; and the smaller rodentia -- the sixth; while the birds and reptiles will follow in due course.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Finally, the pliocene gives us for the first time, oxen, deer, camels, and other specimens of the ruminantia.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

The rasorial type comprehends most of the animals which become domesticated and useful to man, as, first, the fowls which give a name to the type, the ungulata, and more particularly the ruminantia, among quadrupeds, and the dog among the ferae.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

Liberals tend to be more optimistic about the prospects for world order, and they perceive the common humanity ruminantia of the sheep and the goats.

Cranmer 2008

_white_; and granting that it was invariably black, other genera of the ruminantia have the muzzle black: and therefore it cannot be said to be

Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. George Vasey 1857