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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, adjective [L. ruminans, -antis, p. pr.: cf. F. ruminant. See {Ruminate}.] (Zo["o]l.) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ruminant \Ru"mi*nant\, noun (Zo["o]l.) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ruminant
adjective: related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals" [ant: {nonruminant}]
noun: any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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