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# cud

«cud» in Mova's school dictionary: **food that a cow, sheep, goat or deer has swallowed and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cud; uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cud is food that a cow, sheep, goat or deer has swallowed and then brings back up from its stomach into its mouth to chew again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#m1)

2) «To chew the cud» means to chew food this way; figuratively, it means to think about something slowly and carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, animals that chew the cud are called ruminants; they have a stomach with several parts so they can digest tough grass. In farm visits and stories, cows lie in the field chewing the cud. In the Bible, animals that chew the cud and have split hooves are listed as clean to eat in the old laws (Bible). Phrases: «chew the cud», «chewing the cud».

### examples

- The cow lay in the field chewing the cud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#x1)
- Sheep and goats chew the cud too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#x2)
- Animals that chew the cud are called ruminants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#x3)
- A cow brings grass back up from its stomach as cud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#x4)
- Grandad sat on the bench chewing the cud about the old days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#x5)
- In old laws, animals that chew the cud were allowed as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#x6)
- When he and his guests entered the courtyard, they noticed the goat tied to the post quietly chewing the cud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «chew the cud», not «a cud». Rhymes with «mud». Do not confuse with «could».

### In the corpora

- [A cow's stomach has four parts, and it chews its food twice, bringing it back up as cud.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/13/)
- [And the rock-badger, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.259/)
- [And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.260/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cud» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cud/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.