bison (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *bison*:
NOUN	animal	bison	any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns

bison > pronunciation
Sounds	bay'sahn
Rhymes	Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn...

English > *bison*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	Any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns.
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
Narrower	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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