Bison
['baɪs(ə)n] or ['baɪsn]
Definition
(noun.) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns.
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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [U. S.] Buffalo.
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Definition
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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Examples
- They killed and ate red deer and roe deer, bison and wild boar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Great areas of the American interior were prairie land, whose nomadic tribes subsisted upon vast herds of the now practically extinct bison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were spreading slowly southward, hunting the innumerable bison of the plains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Your rich Lowick farmers are as curious as any buffaloes or bisons, and I dare say you don't half see them at church. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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