rumen – English noun declension

English noun forms of rumen

Noun: rumen
Singularrumen
Pluralrumina; rumens

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [2013 [1966], Robert E. Hungate, The Rumen and Its Microbes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 162:]

Nouns inflected like rumen

bitumen, discrimen, nomen, rumen, foramen, alar foramen, dictamen,

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūmen.