brooding vs ruminant

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

ruminant

adj
  • Pondering; ruminative. 

  • Chewing cud. 

noun
  • An artiodactyl ungulate mammal which chews cud, such as a cow or deer. 

How often have the words brooding and ruminant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )