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Bison

Bison Meaning & Definition
Bison Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bison?

[n] any of several large shaggy-maned humped bovids having large heads and short horns

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bison:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bison: aurochs | beef | beef cattle | beeves | bossy | bovine | bovine animal | Brahman | buffalo | bull | bullock | calf | carabao | cattle | cow | critter | dairy cattle | dairy cow | dogie | heifer | hornless cow | Indian buffalo | kine | leppy | maverick | milch cow | milcher | milk cow | milker | muley cow | muley head | musk-ox | neat | ox | oxen | steer | stirk | stot | wisent | yak | yearling | zebu

See Also | American bison | American buffalo | aurochs | Bison bison | Bison bonasus | bovid | buffalo | genus Bison | wisent

Bison In Webster's Dictionary

\Bi"son\ (b[imac]"s[o^]n; 277), n. [L. bison, Gr. bi`swn, a wild ox; akin to OHG. wisunt, wisant, G. wisent, AS. wesend, Icel. v[=i]sundr: cf. F. bison.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) The aurochs or European bison. (b) The American bison buffalo ({Bison Americanus}), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

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