bison
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- noun
- /ˈbaɪsən/
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bisonte
- At Yellowstone National Park, tourists often take pictures of the bison roaming freely.
- bison herd
- bison calves
- bison grazing
If you showed me a hairless bison, it'd be a solo act.
- If you showed me a hairless bison, it'd be a solo act.
- Anyone that says that has never seen wild bison on the plains outside of Jackson, Wyoming.
- So she worked on things like the American bison and great conch and and so forth.
- They have a blade of grass and every tree and the mountain that overlooked our ceremony and the bison that were in the field.
- So there's actually and we've killed all the natural bison or, you know, grazing animals often times that were on that land.
- A Ranger arrived told us the back story that the day before this mother bison was in the process of giving birth to a stillborn.
- If you are talking about Buffalo and someone says I think you'll mean bison, that person shall be haunted to the brink of extinction.
- A lot of the guys were having bison burgers, mousse soup.
Examples
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I wonder if they have bison.
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So when there is a snowstorm, a bison goes head up into those snowstorms.
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This way to the bison, my friend.
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There were seven baby bison that were just born in Banff National Park.
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"When there was a drought, the bison either migrated out of the area or died.
Academic text (1994) -
The emotional bond makes it tough when they take bison to be slaughtered.
Academic text (2004) -
Anyone that says that has never seen wild bison on the plains outside of Jackson, Wyoming.
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It's a majestic creature, the bison.
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The grass would retrench; the bison dependent on it would suffer.
Academic text (2002) -
We've seen bison, horses and mammoths peak in population size and then begin to decline.
Synonyms
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A large wild animal with shaggy hair from North America often called bison or its meat used as food
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A large shaggy brown animal that lives on the North American plains
A large brown wild animal with thick fur that lives on North American plains
A large, shaggy brown bison that lives on the North American plains
A large wild European animal like a cow with a smaller head set higher than the American bison
A large wild European bison with a smaller, higher head
Compounds
- Specialized
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A large shaggy brown animal that lives on the North American plains
- Specialized
A large brown wild animal with thick fur that lives on North American plains
- Specialized
A large wild European animal like a cow with a smaller head set higher than the American bison
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bison comes from an old Greek and Latin word meaning 'wild ox', so you can think of a bison as a very large wild cattle with a hump and a shaggy mane, much like a giant ox that once roamed the plains.