Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of rumen.

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  • noun Plural form of rumen.

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Examples

  • Threatened butterfly species include the Spanish festoon (Zerynthia rumina), Mediterranean tiger blue (Tarucus rosaceus), desert orange tip (Colotis evagore), and Mediterranean skipper (Gegenes nostrodamus).

    Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets 2007

  • The fractionation of carbohydrates in Indian feedstuffs and the digestion of different fractions in the rumina of cattle and buffalo.

    6 Nutrition 1981

  • Utilization of nitrogen and production of volatile fatty acids in the rumina of buffalo (Bos bubalis) and zebu (Bos indicus) at different time intervals, under a feeding regimen deficient in carbohydrates.

    6 Nutrition 1981

  • I ihall only obferve, that the papilio rumina, arge, and phaL flavia, which are either unknown, or very rare in Switzerland, are here extremely common; as is likewife the meloe cichorii Linn, towards which Dr. Manni has endeavoured to direfl: the attention of his countrymen.

    Travels through various provinces of the kingdom of Naples, in 1789 1795

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