Definition of Bison. Meaning of Bison. Synonyms of Bison

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Definition of Bison

Bison
Bison 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.

Meaning of Bison from wikipedia

- A bison (pl.: bison) is a large bovine in the genus Bison (Gr****: "wild ox" (bison)) within the tribe Bovini. Two extant and numerous extinct species are...
- The American bison (Bison bison; pl.: bison), commonly known as the American buffalo, or simply buffalo (not to be confused with true buffalo), is a species...
- The European bison (pl.: bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent (/ˈviːzənt/ or /ˈwiːzənt/), the zubr (/ˈzuːbər/)...
- The wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) or mountain bison (often called the wood buffalo or mountain buffalo), is a distinct northern subspecies or ecotype...
- The plains bison (Bison bison bison) is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison (B. b. athabascae). A natural...
- M. Bison, also known as Vega (****anese: ベガ, Hepburn: Bega) in ****an, is a fictional character created by Capcom. First introduced in Street Fighter II:...
- The steppe bison or steppe wisent (Bison priscus) is an extinct species of bison. It was widely distributed across the mammoth steppe, ranging from Western...
- Bison antiquus is an extinct species of bison that lived in North America during the Late Pleistocene from over 60,000 years ago until around 10,000 years...
- GNU Bison, commonly known as Bison, is a p****r generator that is part of the GNU Project. Bison reads a specification in Bison syntax (described as "machine-readable...
- bison that other Buffalo bison bully also bully Buffalo bison." Thus, the p****d sentence claims that bison who are intimidated or bullied by bison do...