ruminate
Meaning of ruminate
- 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.
- 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
Information about ruminate
- The plural form of ruminate is: ruminates.
- Languages in which ruminate is used:
(Press the button to hear it)
Hyphenation of ruminate
ru-mi-nate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- ruminate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
ruminate synonyms
Meaning chew over:
meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, speculate
Translation of ruminate
- Italian: ruminare
Anagrams of ruminate
Words that rhyme with ruminate
Nate, Alphanate, Banate, Bromanate, Depanate, Italianate, Lomanate, Plasmanate, Thiophanate, acetylglucopyranosylisothiocyanate, acetylphenylisothiocyanate, acetyltryptophanate, adamantylisocyanate, aldermanate, allophanate, alloxanate, allylisothiocyanate, allylthiocyanate, aminobenzylpenicilianate, aminoethylthiocyanate, aminopenicillanate, amoscanate, anate, applanate, azidophenylisothiocyanate, banate, benzoylisothiocyanate, benzylisothiocyanate, benzylthiocyanate, biphenyldiisocyanate, biphenylisothiocyanate, bisthiocyanate, bitoscanate, bromoallylisothiocyanate, bromoallylthiocyanate, bromobenzylisothiocyanate, bromopenicillanate, bromophenylisocyanate, bromophenylisothiocyanate, butenylisothiocyanate, butylcyanate, butylisothiocyanate, calpanate, cephalosporanate, chlorobenzylthiocyanate, chloroethylisocyanate, chloromethylthiocyanate, chlorophenylisothiocyanate, chlorophenylthiocyanate, chlorosulfonylisocyanate