ruminant

ruminant
    adj 1: related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder
           Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud;
           "ruminant mammals" [ant: {nonruminant}]
    n 1: any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach
         divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
    

Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, n. (Zool.)
   A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
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Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, a. [L. ruminans, -antis, p. pr.: cf. F.
   ruminant. See {Ruminate}.] (Zool.)
   Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been
   swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
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86 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruminant":
      amphibian, aquatic, asinine, biped, bovid, bovine, canine,
      cannibal, caprid, caprine, carnivore, chewing, cogitative,
      cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual,
      conceptualized, contemplating, contemplative, cosmopolite, cowish,
      cowlike, cud-chewing, deerlike, deliberating, deliberative,
      equestrian, equine, excogitating, feline, gnawer, goatish,
      goatlike, herbivore, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy, ideative,
      insectivore, introspective, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian,
      manducatory, marsupial, marsupialian, masticatory, meditating,
      meditative, mental, mulish, museful, musing, noetic, omnivore,
      ovine, pensive, piggish, pondering, prehensive, primate, quadruped,
      reflecting, reflective, reptile, rodent, ruminating, ruminative,
      scavenger, serious, sheepish, sheeplike, sober, speculative,
      swinish, thinking, thought, thoughtful, ungulate, varmint, vermin,
      vertebrate, wistful