Exempel på cud

• As horses do not chew the cud, many seeds pass more or less intact though the digestive tract.

• All that remained were the unions' usual tactics and their anger, later expressed by showers of cuds and snipes.

• I want to chew the cud a little because there is a fair amount of cud to chew.

• The ruminants—cattle, sheep—chew the cud and must lie down and digest their food, and then they are happy.

• The facts are obvious: if for the sake of sheer greed we want to turn a cud-chewing animal into a feeder on carrion, then we have got it all wrong.

• We would sit and chew the cud.

• A cud is a variation of a die defect in which the coin bears a raised portion of metal.

• He can chew the cud (has wisdom) but does not have cleft hooves (have both spiritual and temporal authorities).

• The giraffe has both split hooves and chews its cud, characteristics of animals considered kosher.

• This type of reingestion to obtain more nutrients is similar to the chewing of cud in cattle.

• The solids lump together to form a bolus (also known as the cud), this is regurgitated by reticular contractions while the glottis is closed.

• This is safer than grazing, which requires lowering the head thus leaving the animal vulnerable to predators, while cud chewing does not.

• Consumption by ruminants of an insufficiently fibrous diet leads to little cud formation and therefore lowered amounts of saliva production.

• A very minuscule cud can look like a small chunk of metal that was somehow fused to the coin.

• Giraffes chew on these lumps, called cud, throughout the day, helping to further break the food down.