ruminant

About 0.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Chewing cud.
2. adjective Pondering; ruminative.
3. noun Any artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud in the suborder Ruminantia, such as cattle or deer.

Similar words

artiodactyls ruminal biungulate ossivorous multungulate ungulate merdivorous stercophagous stercovorous edentate

Often followed by

animals livestock animal nutrition and species stomach production feed

Word family

ruminantly ruminants