rumen
IPA: rˈumʌn
noun
- The first compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminants.
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Examples of "rumen" in Sentences
- Lipids are otherwise inert in the rumen.
- It is composed of the rumen and reticulum.
- Ruminant animals are those that have a rumen.
- The dish consists of washed and blanched rumen.
- Swamp buffalo rumen ecology and its manipulation.
- These are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum.
- The rumen is the major site of methane production in ruminants.
- There is no evidence to suggest that fungi degrade lignin in the rumen.
- Rumen Lukanov was the host of the interactive part of the show voting .
- The reticulum differs from the rumen with regard to the texture of its lining.
- The rumen is the largest compartment, with a capacity of more than twenty gallons.
- After being swallowed, food enters a large compartment called the rumen, which makes up about 80 percent of the stomach.
- The rumen is the stomach that has always intrigued me most, even more for its inhabitants than for its internal landscape.
- The rumen is the stomach that has always intrigued me most, even more for its inhabitants than for its internal landscape.
- The muscular wall develops finger-like projections called rumen papillae which grow rapidly to provide a large surface area through which essential nutrients can be absorbed.
- The cow has four stomachs of which the rumen is the largest, its capacity being about fifty gallons in the average cow, and it is this stomach which fills with gas when a cow bloats.
- A ruminant is a mammal that digests plant-based food by initially softening it within the animal’s first stomach, known as the rumen, then regurgitating the semi-digested mass, now known as cud, and chewing it again.
- Unlike converting methane from cow shit into electricity, a method that requires expensive gear, this method generates electricity as the microorganisms in rumen fluid break down the complex carbohydrates in roughage.
- Substantiation for the improved "ecosystem" in the rumen are the observations that both intake and digestibility on a basal sugar-cane diet were improved when a highly digestible, but low-protein, roughage in the form of banana stalk was included in the diet (2).