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ruminant
adjective as in meditative
Example Sentences
Gilbert has also noted that outbreaks of the extremely contagious peste des petits ruminants virus have also been recently confirmed in mountainous areas of Nepal.
Nonlethal parasite infections are pervasive in ruminants — plant eaters that play key roles in shaping vegetation on land.
Cows and other ruminants release methane as a byproduct of their digestive process.
That’s why cows and other ruminants, like goats and sheep, have multiple compartments in their stomachs to help them digest their food.
Many studies have examined the chemicals’ impact on methane in adult ruminants.
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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