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n. - The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant.

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  • 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.
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