ruminant
/ˈɹuːmɪnənt/
ruminant adjective: chewing cud.
Adjective
ruminant (comparative more ruminant, superlative most ruminant)
- Chewing cud.
- Pondering; ruminative.
- “I wonder what a paradox is,” remarked the priest in a ruminant manner.1927, G. K. Chesterton, "[https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/g-k-chesterton/the-secret-of-father-brown/text/the-red-moon-of-meru The Red Moon of Meru", in The Secret of Father Brown
Noun
ruminant (plural ruminants)
- Any artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud in the suborder Ruminantia, such as cattle or deer.
- 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.1941, Theodore Roethke, “Prognosis”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC...
- Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected
ruminant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Arabic
ruminant in Tamil
- அசை போடும் விலங்கினம், அசையிடும், இரைமீட்கும்
ruminant in Urdu
- جگالی کرنے والا جانور
ruminant in Kannada
- ಮೆಲುಕಿ, ಮೆಲುಕುಪ್ರಾಣಿ, ರೋಮಂಥಕ, ಮೆಲುಕು ಹಾಕುವ ಪ್ರಾಣಿ, ನೆಮರು ಹಾಕುವ ಪ್ರಾಣಿ, ನಮುಲುಗ
ruminant in Arabic
- chewing cud
- مُجْتَرّ mujtarr
- artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud
- مُجْتَرّ mujtarr, مُجْتَرَّات mujtarrāt
More languagesFewer languages
- ruminant in Malay
- ruminan
- ruminant in Indonesian
- ruminansia
- ruminant in Thai
- สัตว์เคี้ยวเอื้อง sàt-kíao-ʉ̂ʉang
- ruminant in Myanmar
- စမြုံ့ပြန်သော ca.mrum.pransau:
Forms of ruminant
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ruminant |
| superlative | most ruminant |
| Noun | |
| plural | ruminants |
Origin of ruminant
From Latin rūmināns, rūminantem, present participle of rūminārī (“to chew the cud, ruminate”), from rūmen (“throat, gullet, rumen (first stomach of a ruminant)”).
Words formed from ruminant
Questions about ruminant
- What does ruminant mean?
- Ruminant means chewing cud.
- What is ruminant in Tamil?
- Ruminant in Tamil is அசை போடும் விலங்கினம், அசையிடும், இரைமீட்கும். See Ruminant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ruminant?
- Ruminant can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce ruminant?
- Ruminant is pronounced /ˈɹuːmɪnənt/.
Words near ruminant in the dictionary
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