About The Word Bison
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Bison
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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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