RUMINATE
ruminate
Verb
- To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
- A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
- To meditate or reflect.
- I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
- To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
Adjective
- Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
- a ruminate endosperm
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