Synonyms:
ruminant
Meaning: related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
ruminant
Meaning: any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
Usage examples
But he was generous and placable, and some of his best friends were those with whom he had had differences, and had settled them in the way then prevalent,--in a ring of serious spectators, calmly and judicially ruminant, under the shade of some spreading oak, at the edge of the timber.