ruminate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹuːmɪnət/    美 /ˈɹumənət/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen. intransitive
    — A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
  2. To meditate or reflect. intransitive
    — I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
  3. To meditate or ponder over; to muse on. transitive
    — What I know / Is ruminated, plotted, and set down.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. not-comparable
    — a ruminate endosperm

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
Or Thesaurus:think
衍生词
ruminative ruminator
相关词
rumen ruminant rumination ruminatory

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1533; borrowed from Latin rūminātus, perfect active participle of rūminor (“to chew the cud, turn over in the mind”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from rūmen (“the throat, gullet”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), itself of uncertain origin.
词源 2
First attested in 1800, in the writings of John Hull; borrowed from Latin rūminātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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