Used to describe how some animals, like cows, digest food by chewing it twice.

Animal Digestion

'Cud' is specific to ruminants, animals with a special stomach for digestion.

Ruminants' Habit

Involves mental visualization, usually of an animal chewing slowly and deliberately.

Visual Imagery

Indicates thinking on a problem or idea for a long time, reflecting deeply.

Deep Thought

Signals a state of meditation or deep thought, linked to inner deliberation.

Contemplation Signifier

Used metaphorically, unrelated to actual food, to signify pondering or considering.

Figurative Use

 goats with the same cud chewing abilities recently swallowed food can be regurgitated and chewed again before final digestion as they forage along their tail acts as a kind of fifth leg helping to push off from the ground

The Kangaroo is the...

 called the cows of the canopy they are the only primate with a digestive system equipped to chew the cud