What does bison mean?
Definitions for bison
ˈbaɪ sən, -zənbi·son
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Princeton's WordNet
bisonnoun
any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
Wiktionary
bisonnoun
A wild ox, Bison bonasus.
bisonnoun
A similar American animal, Bison bison else Bos americanus or Bisonte americano; also called a buffalo.
Etymology: bison, from bison, of origin, from wīsundaz, from wisAn-. Akin to wisunt "bison" (Wisent "bison"), wesend "bison, buffalo, wild ox", wesent "wild ox".
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bison
A bison is a large, hump-backed herbivorous mammal, originally native to North America and Europe, known for its heavy wooly hair and massive head. It is a member of the cattle family, Bovidae, and is often referred to as buffalo, although it is distinct from the true buffalo species found in Asia and Africa. It is primarily a grazing animal. There are two extant bison species: the American bison and the European bison.
Webster Dictionary
Bisonnoun
the aurochs or European bison
Bisonnoun
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
Wikidata
Bison
Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae. There are two extant and four extinct species recognized. Of the four extinct species, three were North American; Bison antiquus, B. latifrons, and B. occidentalis. The fourth; the Bison priscus ranged across steppe environments from Western Europe, through Central Asia, and onto North America. There are two surviving species; the American bison, Bison bison, also known as the American buffalo, found only in North America, is the most numerous. It is named buffalo although it is only distantly related to the true buffalo. The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the plains bison, Bison bison bison, and the wood bison, Bison bison athabascae. The European bison Bison bonasus, or wisent is found in Europe and the Caucasus, re-introduced after being extinct in the wild. While all bison species are usually grouped into their own genus, they are sometimes included in the closely related genus Bos, together with cattle, gaur, kouprey and yaks, with which bison have a limited ability to interbreed.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bison
bī′son, or bis′on, 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. [From L. pl. bisontes, prob. of Teut. origin; cf. Old High Ger. wisunt, A.S. wesend.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
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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Editors Contribution
bison
A type of animal.
Bison are found in various countries around the world.
Submitted by MaryC on February 16, 2020
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BISON
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bison is ranked #66553 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Bison surname appeared 297 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bison.
81.4% or 242 total occurrences were White.
7.7% or 23 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
3.7% or 11 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
3% or 9 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bison in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bison in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of bison in a Sentence
Our ancestors depended on( bison) for survival, and now they depend on us for their survival, we should be fighting for their lives.
The bear skull was washed out of the same river sediments that routinely produce the skulls and bones of the American bison, some of which could date back as far as the last Ice Age, whether it is hundreds or thousands of years old, the skull gives us a better insight into the richness of life on the plains before Western man.
As long as there's no lethal removal of bison, our ability to remove them is greatly diminished.
These will be the first bison rangers in the UK probably ever, we’ve never had European Bison here in the past.
Fargo, North Dakota, means a ton to us. It was a lot of fun to be out there with Trey and get a chance to represent the Bison a little bit.
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- الثورArabic
- бізон, зубр, зубарBelarusian
- зубър, бизонBulgarian
- ᐸᔉᐙᐎᒧᐢᑐᐢCree
- zubr, bizon evropský, bizon americký, bizonCzech
- bisonDanish
- Wisent, Bison, Amerikanischer BisonGerman
- βίσοναςGreek
- bizonoEsperanto
- bisonteSpanish
- بیسونPersian
- biisoniFinnish
- visundur, bisonurFaroese
- bison d'Amérique du Nord, bison, bison d'EuropeFrench
- bíosún Meiriceánach, bíosúnIrish
- bìoson Ameireaganach, bìoson, buabhallScottish Gaelic
- बिजोनHindi
- bölény, amerikai bölényHungarian
- բիզոնArmenian
- bantengIndonesian
- vísundurIcelandic
- bisonteItalian
- תְאוֹHebrew
- バイソン, 野牛, アメリカ野牛Japanese
- ಕಾಡೆಮ್ಮೆKannada
- 바이슨Korean
- bisonLatin
- stumbrasLithuanian
- sumbrsLatvian
- бизонMacedonian
- wisentDutch
- bisonNorwegian
- ayáníNavajo, Navaho
- bizon, żubrPolish
- auroque, bisão, bisão-europeu, bisonte, bisão-americanoPortuguese
- zimbru, bizonRomanian
- бизон, зубрRussian
- зубар, бизон, bizon, zubarSerbo-Croatian
- zubor, bizónSlovak
- bizon, zoberSlovene
- bizonAlbanian
- bisonoxe, europeisk bison, visentSwedish
- காட்டெருமைTamil
- బైసన్Telugu
- วัวกระทิงThai
- bizonTurkish
- бізон, американський бізон, американський зубр, зубрUkrainian
- بائسنUrdu
- bò rừngVietnamese
- ביסאָןYiddish
- 野牛Chinese
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