How to pronounce ruminant

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What ruminant means

noun

An animal, such as a cow or deer, that chews cud

In a sentence: A goat is a ruminant, so it chews the same mouthful again and again after eating.

Where it comes from: It comes from the Latin ruminari, to chew cud, from rumen, a word for the throat.

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