When food enters a bovine’s stomach, it undergoes a process called enteric fermentation: microbes and bacteria partially break down the food particles, which then ferment in the part of the stomach called the rumen.
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Rumen
//ˈɹu.mən//
Synonyms for "rumen" (43 found)
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49 translations across 36 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- كَرِش noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Breton
1 entries- sac'hig noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Bulgarian
1 entries- търбух noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Catalan
1 entries- rumen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- وِرگ noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 瘤胃 noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Czech
1 entries- bachor noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Danish
1 entries- vom noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Dutch
1 entries- pens noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Faroese
1 entries- vomb noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Finnish
1 entries- pötsi noun (first stomach of ruminants)
French
2 entries- panse noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- rumen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
German
2 entries- Pansen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- Wanst noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Greek
1 entries- προστόμαχος noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Hebrew
2 entries- המסס noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- כרס noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Hungarian
1 entries- bendő noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Italian
1 entries- rumine noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Japanese
1 entries- ミノ noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Korean
2 entries- 제1 위 noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- 혹위 noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Latin
2 entries- ingluviēs noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- rūmen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Malay
1 entries- rumen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Old Slovak
1 entries- bachor noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- اشكمبه noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- شكمبه noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Persian
2 entries- سیرابی noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- شکمبه noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Polish
1 entries- żwacz noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Portuguese
1 entries- rúmen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Romanian
1 entries- rumen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Russian
1 entries- рубе́ц noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bùrāg noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- бу̀ра̄г noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Slovak
1 entries- bachor noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Spanish
2 entries- panza noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- rumen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Swedish
2 entries- vom noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- våm noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Turkish
2 entries- işkembe noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- şkembe noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Vietnamese
1 entries- dạ cỏ noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Walloon
1 entries- panse noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Welsh
3 entries- blaenstumog noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- rwmen noun (first stomach of ruminants)
- y god fawr noun (first stomach of ruminants)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
In the newborn ruminant the abomasum is about as large as the rumen and remains relatively large as long as only milk is consumed (Brugnone, 1809). As the young ruminant consumes forages, the reticulum, and particularly the rumen, develop rapidly.
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