cudnoun [ U ]
uk/kʌd/us/kʌd/food that has been eaten by an animal with more than one stomach, such as a cow, and that comes back into the animal's mouth to be chewed again before going into the second stomach:
UK a cow chewing the cud
US a cow chewing cud
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal food
- alfalfa
- bird feeder
- birdseed
- buckwheat
- cattle cake
- chaff
- feed
- fodder
- hay
- maize
- manger
- oats
- pasture
- salt lick
- silage
- straw
- swill
- trough
- water
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Idiom(s)
chew the cud
chew your cud