FIRST STOMACH

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Meaning:

The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing

Synonyms:

first stomach; rumen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("first stomach" is a kind of...):

breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)

Holonyms ("first stomach" is a part of...):

ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)

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