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first stomach

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Noun1.first stomach - the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing
rumen
ruminant - any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
stomach, tum, tummy, breadbasket - an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion


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