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Definition of Bison

1. Noun. Any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns.

Definition of Bison

1. n. The aurochs or European bison.

Definition of Bison

1. Noun. A wild ox, ''Bison bonasus''. ¹

2. Noun. A similar American animal, ''Bison bison'' else ''Bos americanus'' or ''Bisonte americano''; also called a buffalo. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bison

1. an ox-like animal [n -S]

Medical Definition of Bison

1. The aurochs or European 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. Origin: L. Bison, Gr, a wild ox; akin to OHG. Wisunt, wisant, G. Wisent, AS. Wesend, Icel. Visundr: cf. F. Bison. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bison

Literary usage of Bison

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"This is the largest herd of bison in the world, numbering 3561 and is maintained ... Besides these 3561 bison, there are also 8 at the Rocky Mountains Park, ..."

2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1905)
"THE FOSSIL bison OF KANSAS. By C, E. McCLUNG, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Read before the Academy, at Topeka, December 30,1904. rf^HE heavy floods of ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"The genus bison of the bovine family includes the American bison, ... Of the agricultural value of the bison, however, comparatively little has been said, ..."

4. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"These "hunters" miscalled the unhappy bison, which is not a buffalo, ... The sudden extinction of the bison resulted partly from the slaughter and partly ..."

5. Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park by New York Zoological Park, William Temple Hornaday, New York Zoological Society (1911)
"The bison breeds in confinement about as readily <as domestic cattle. ... With the exception of a very few individuals, our entire bison herd is the gift of ..."

6. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith, Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1810)
"(Plate I.) THE bison, or Wild Ox, It is as hiz as a bull or ox, being maned about the neck ... THE White Scottish bison is maned about the neck like a Lion, ..."

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