| 单词 | cud-chewing |
| 释义 | > as lemmascud-chewing C1. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which cud expresses the object of the underlying verb, as cud-chewer, cud-chewing, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > [noun] > ruminant ruminator1598 ruminant1661 cud-chewer1719 ruminal1844 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 155 The delicate, cud-chewing Golden-Eye. 1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum 385/2 Ruminant, Cud-Chewers, is a general name for all those Animals that chew the Cud. 1876 Rep. Trans. Pennsylvania State Agric. Soc. 11 211 When coarse food..is greedily eaten in inordinate quantity, the first stomach may become so impacted and so compress the second as to interrupt the cud making process. 1942 Pacific Northwest Q. 33 167 Bleating continues until all the ewes locate their lambs,..then the white, cud-chewing mass lies quiet until dawn. 2009 Monterey County (Calif.) Herald (Nexis) 5 Mar. (Science and Tech) Cud-chewers have roamed the planet for millennia, but not in the concentrations seen since our meat- and dairy-loving civilizations figured out how to raise them on a massive scale. < as lemmas |
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