Bison
['baɪs(ə)n] or ['baɪsn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The aurochs or European bison.
(n.) 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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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [U. S.] Buffalo.
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解釋/意思:
n. a large wild animal like the bull found in Lithuania the Caucasus &c. with shaggy hair and a fatty hump on its shoulders.—The American 'buffalo' is also a bison.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They killed and ate red deer and roe deer, bison and wild boar. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Great areas of the American interior were prairie land, whose nomadic tribes subsisted upon vast herds of the now practically extinct bison. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were hunting peoples, and some or all of them appear to have hunted the mammoth and the wild horse as well as the reindeer, bison, and aurochs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We give here some early sketches, from which we learn of the interest taken by these early men in the bison, horse, ibex, cave bear, and reindeer. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were spreading slowly southward, hunting the innumerable bison of the plains. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The prevailing animals in the spreading woods of Europe were the royal stag, the great ox, and the bison; the mammoth and the musk ox had gone. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Your rich Lowick farmers are as curious as any buffaloes or bisons, and I dare say you don't half see them at church. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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