| NOUN | animal | bison | any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns |
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| Sounds | bay'sahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | Any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns. | |
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| Member of | genus Bison | sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos |
| Narrower | American bison, American buffalo, buffalo, Bison bison | large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains |
| wisent, aurochs, Bison bonasus | European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | |
| Broader | bovid | hollow-horned ruminants |
| Spanish | bison, bisonte | |
| Catalan | bisó | |
| Adjectives | bisontine | relating to or characteristic of bison |
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