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ruminant

adj
/ˈɹuːmɪnənt/

Etymology

From Latin rūmināns, rūminantem, present participle of rūminārī (“to chew the cud, ruminate”), from rūmen (“throat, gullet, rumen (first stomach of a ruminant)”).

  1. derived from rūmināns

Definitions

  1. Chewing cud.

  2. Pondering

    Pondering; ruminative.

    • “I wonder what a paradox is,” remarked the priest in a ruminant manner.

  3. Any artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud in the suborder Ruminantia, such as…

    Any artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud in the suborder Ruminantia, such as cattle or deer.

    • Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected From enemies that whisper to the blood; The scratch forgotten is the scratch infected; The ruminant, reason, chews a poisoned cud.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ruminant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ruminant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at ruminant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA