Crossword-Solution: RUMINANT 8 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Ruminant a. Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has
been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.
Ruminant n. A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.

We have 21 clues for the answer “RUMINANT”

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Buffalo, camel, or llama. 1 answer
One chews the cud 1 answer
any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four compartments 1 answer
Mulling 1 answer
Meditative insect 1 answer
Cud-chewing mammal 1 answer
Cud-chewing 1 answer
Cow, e.g. 1 answer
Cow or goat 1 answer
Cow or camel 1 answer
Camel or giraffe 1 answer
Buffalo or camel, for instance. 1 answer
Cud chewer 4 answers
Giraffe 7 answers
Chewer Bamboo 10 answers
CHEWER, SCENERY 10 answers
cud animal 10 answers
CUD CHEWERS 10 answers
alpaca 10 answers
COW ___ 34 answers
Meditative. 63 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RUMINANT (5)

You or I, even had we been able to hear the pitiful wail at so great distance, could not have interpreted it; but to Meriem it meant a species of terror that afflicts the ruminant when a carnivore is near and escape impossible.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Was ever a man in such a position as I, between a demented captain and a ghost-seeing mate? I sometimes think I am the only really sane man aboard the vessel--except perhaps the second engineer, who is a kind of ruminant, and would care nothing for all the fiends in the Red Sea so long as they would leave him alone and not disarrange his tools.
The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
Then we shall be able to admire, without the slightest disturbance of our prepossessions: we shall hate and despise with that true ruminant relish which belongs to undoubting confidence.” But, my good friend, what will you do then with your fellow-parishioner who opposes your husband in the vestry? With your newly appointed vicar, whose style of preaching you find painfully below that of his regretted predecessor? With the honest servant who worries your soul with her one failing? With your neighbour, Mrs.
Adam Bede George Eliot [pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans] 1996
Within nearly this same period (as proved by the shells at Bahia Blanca) South America possessed, as we have just seen, a mastodon, horse, hollow-horned ruminant, and the same three genera (as well as several others) of the Edentata.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1997
Well, it's a confounded funny coincidence,' he said, accenting the penultimate, 'it's a very unusual piece of good luck, but you're 'is mother.' “'When first I saw 'er picture,' said the man Bill, shaking his head in a ruminant manner, 'when I first saw it I said--old Shorter.
The Club of Queer Trades G. K. Chesterton 1999

Quotes with RUMINANT (3)

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer.
Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
He dozed off, into a dreamless oblivion, for what seemed like seconds but was in fact hours, and awoke hungover, the inner surface of his skull pulsing like a single, giant nerve being chewed by some ruminant animal.
Alex Shakar Luminarium
Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1954–2018).