Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ruminant

Ruminant , adjective

[Latin ruminans, -antis, p. pr.: compare French ruminant. See Ruminate.]

(Zoology) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

Ruminant , noun

(Zoology) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.