cud

As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains, and crop waste into muscle and milk.

As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains and crop waste into muscle and milk.

He can chew on his voice like a cow chews its cud.

In turn, Swinton found the task a chance to, as she put it, “chew one’s own cud.”

They also spent more time lounging around the barn as they chewed their cud and ruminated the universe.