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1. (n.) bison
a North American buffalo, Bison bison, having a large head and high, humped shoulders.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME bisontes (pl.) < L (nom. sing. bisōn) < Gmc)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) bison
any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
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1. (noun) bison
a large North-American hoofed animal
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) bison
the aurochs or European bison
2. (noun) bison
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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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. bison
A genus of the family Bovidae having two species: B. bison and B. bonasus. This concept is differentiated from BUFFALOES, which refers to Bubalus arnee and Syncerus caffer.
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Sense: the American buffalo
a herd of bison.
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 Afrikaans: bison |
 Arabic: بيسون: ثور وحشي أمريكي |
 Bulgarian: бизон |
 Brazilian: bisão |
 Czech: bizon |
 German: der Bison |
 Danish: bisonokse |
 Greek: βίσονας |
 Spanish: bisonte |
 Estonian: Ameerika piison |
 Farsi: گاومیش آمریکایی |
 Finnish: puhveli |
 French: bison |
 Hebrew: תְאוֹ |
 Hindi: भैंसा |
 Croatian: bizon |
 Hungarian: bölény |
 Indonesian: bison |
 Icelandic: vísundur |
 Italian: bisonte |
 Japanese: アメリカ野牛 |
 Korean: 바이슨(미국 들소) |
 Lithuanian: bizonas |
 Latvian: bizons |
 Malay: bison |
 Dutch: bizon |
 Norwegian: bisonokse |
 Polish: bizon |
 Persian: گاومیش آمریکایی |
 Portuguese: bisonte |
 Romanian: bizon |
 Russian: (американский) бизон |
 Slovak: bizón |
 Slovenian: bizon |
 Serbian: bizon |
 Swedish: bison[oxe] |
 Thai: วัวไบซัน |
 Turkish: bizon |
 Taiwanese: (美洲)水牛 |
 Ukrainian: бізон |
 Urdu: امریکی بھینس |
 Vietnamese: trâu Châu Mỹ |
 Chinese: （美洲）水牛 |
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