Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
ruminant . [Rare.] Imp. Dict.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.), rare Ruminant; ruminating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or situated inside the
rumen
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Examples
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Ruminal fermentation of lichens has an important effect on ruminal absorption of energy rich volatile fatty acids in winter [24] and reindeer that eat lichens are better able to extract nitrogen from dietary vascular plants in winter [25].
Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010
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Effects of seasonal changes in food quality and food intake on the transport of sodium and butyrate across ruminal eupithelium of reindeer.
Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010
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The presence of condensed tannins in some fodder tree leaves affords some protection against ruminal degradation, and thereby delivers significant amounts of plant protein for absorption in the intestinal tract.
Chapter 7 1996
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However the high CP content of fodder trees leaves may not confer any direct nutritional benefit to the animal unless these proteins are protected against ruminal degradation.
Chapter 7 1996
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JONES, R.J. (1985) Leucaena toxicity and ruminal degradation of mimosine.
Chapter 4 1994
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Short rotation, hardwood tree biomass as potential ruminant feed-chemical composition, nylon bag ruminal degradation and ensilement of selected species.
Chapter 34 1990
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They found that the ethanolic extract of EER significantly and dose-dependently reduced the basal gastric acid secretion, titratable acidity and ruminal ulceration.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Conversion of nitrate to nitrite occurs primarily in the large bowel in horses and is roughly one-fourth as efficient as ruminal conversion in cattle.
TheHorse.com News 2009
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They found that the ethanolic extract of EER significantly and dose-dependently reduced the basal gastric acid secretion, titratable acidity and ruminal ulceration.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Acute ruminal indigestion, alkalosis death cattle grazing Kikuyu
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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