ruminant
noun/ˈruːmɪnənt/
/ˈruːmɪnənt/
(specialist)- any animal that brings back food from its stomach to its mouth and chews it again. Cows and sheep are both ruminants.Topics Animalsc2Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin ruminant- ‘chewing over again’, from the verb ruminari, from rumen ‘throat’.
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