ruminant
noun /ˈruːmɪnənt/
/ˈruːmɪnənt/
(specialist)- any animal that brings back food from its stomach to its mouth and chews it again. Cows and sheep are both ruminants.
反刍动物 词源mid 17th cent.: from Latin ruminant- ‘chewing over again’, from the verb ruminari, from rumen ‘throat’.