The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word RUMINANT
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More clues leading to the result RUMINANT
- Cow perhaps having drink at home with insect
- It might make a drunk driver pensive
- The thinking animal?
- Possibly neat drink swallowed by worker
- Musing male in area covered by tiny bit of litter?
- Minute area covered by minute juvenile cow?
- After game, Minister and worker in quiet contemplation
- What gets insect drunk, like sheep, perhaps?
- Drink in trailer for cow, perhaps?
- Strange, mostly mindless time to be meditative
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What does RUMINANT mean?
RUMINANT noun- An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer.
- Chewing cud.
- Pondering; ruminative.