🇬🇧🇪🇸 ruminant - rumiante : English Lesson

Meaning of "ruminant" ("rumiante"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A ruminant is a kind of animal that has a special stomach with several parts and a very unusual way of eating. First, it quickly bites and swallows plants like grass or leaves. Then, later when it is resting, the food comes back up from its stomach into its mouth, and the animal chews it again very carefully. This is called “chewing the cud.” Cows, sheep, goats, and deer are all ruminants, and this strange way of eating helps them get as much goodness as possible from tough, hard-to-chew plants.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

At the farm, the ruminant looked like it was daydreaming, but really it was just having a snack it already ate.

The ruminant’s mouth moved like it was giving a speech, but it was just making grass into soggy green mush.

The ruminant yawned, lay down, and started chewing again, proving that it could nap and snack at the same time.

A ruminant doesn’t need a lunchbox; the food is already packed in its stomach waiting for round two.

Ruminants like cows have four stomach compartments to help them chew the same food again and again, basically turning them into super-powered plant-processing machines.

A small girl sat by the fence and watched a ruminant in the field. The ruminant munched grass, swallowed, then the ruminant quietly brought it back up and chewed again. The ruminant had a slow mouth and soft cud chewing that soothed her tired day. She smiled, waved, and the ruminant blinked, calm and full.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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