ruminant

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Etymology

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From Latin rūmināns, rūminantem, present participle of rūminārī (to chew the cud, ruminate), from rūmen (throat, gullet, rumen (first stomach of a ruminant)).

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Adjective

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ruminant (comparative more ruminant, superlative most ruminant)

  1. Chewing cud.
  2. Pondering; ruminative.
    • G. K. Chesterton
      “I wonder what a paradox is,” remarked the priest in a ruminant manner.

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Noun

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ruminant (plural ruminants)

  1. An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.
    • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Prognosis”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 5:
      Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected
      From enemies that whisper to the blood;
      The scratch forgotten is the scratch infected;
      The ruminant, reason, chews a poisoned cud.

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French

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Adjective

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ruminant (feminine ruminante, masculine plural ruminants, feminine plural ruminantes)

  1. ruminant

Noun

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ruminant m (plural ruminants)

  1. ruminant

Participle

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ruminant

  1. present participle of ruminer

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Latin

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Verb

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rūminant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of rūminō