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ruminant

adjective as in meditative

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Away goes your fine brain, the house of thought and instinct, to swell the cud of a ruminant animal!

He was eating in his slow ruminant way—he ate enormously but never hungrily.

Paunch, pawnsh, or pnsh, n. the belly: the first and largest stomach of a ruminant.

Monona, who had previously hidden a cooky in her frock, now remembered it and crunched sidewise, the eyes ruminant.

On the other hand, his intelligence is a grade or two above that of perhaps any ruminant or other herbivorous quadruped.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ruminant, such as: introspective, pensive, reflective, awake, aware, and cogitative.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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