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Ruminant vs Luminant - What's the difference?

ruminant | luminant |

As adjectives the difference between ruminant and luminant

is that ruminant is chewing cud while luminant is that illuminates; luminous.

As a noun ruminant

is an artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

ruminant

English

(wikipedia ruminant)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Chewing cud.
  • Pondering; ruminative.
  • * G. K. Chesterton
    • “I wonder what a paradox is,” remarked the priest in a ruminant manner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * ruminate ----

    luminant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That illuminates; luminous
    • ----