ruminant

noun

• 1an even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives.

  • Suborder Ruminantia, order Artiodactyla: six families

• 2a contemplative person; a person given to meditation: he was destined to become a ruminant, a haunter of libraries

adjective

• of or belonging to ruminants:a ruminant animal