ruminant

Chewing cud.

Pondering; ruminative.

“I wonder what a paradox is,” remarked the priest in a ruminant manner.

Any artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud in the suborder Ruminantia, such as a cow or deer.

Flesh behind steel and glass is unprotected From enemies that whisper to the blood; The scratch forgotten is the scratch infected; The ruminant, reason, chews a poisoned cud.