cud

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She said it was "so lovely that anybody would bother to come up and chew the cud with you for a while"

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains, and crop waste into muscle and milk.

From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023

As with most ruminants, cattle make the most of a paltry diet, converting cud, grains and crop waste into muscle and milk.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2023

They also spent more time lounging around the barn as they chewed their cud and ruminated the universe.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell