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Definition of Bonasus
1. n. The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.
Definition of Bonasus
1. Noun. A bonnacon. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bonasus
1. a bison [n -ES] - See also: bison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonasus
Literary usage of Bonasus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"identifies the bonasus of Aristotle pairs. For a copious history of the wild oxen
... 411-8., of the horns in the bonasus by supposing that it 4to. was an ..."
2. The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and by Loudon (Jane) (1850)
"(Bos bonasus.} THERE are two kinds of Bison ; one a native of Europe, and the
other of America. The European Bison, or bonasus, is as large as a bull or ox; ..."
3. History of the American Bison, Bison Americanus by Joel Asaph Allen, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1877)
"The length of the carpus and metacarpus in B. americanus (same specimens) to the
length ок tarsus and metatarsus is as 74 to 100 ; in Bison bonasus, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"In the ruminating sections of the artiodactyla, as is well known, the second and
fifth metacarpals are The only other skeleton of Bison bonasus in this ..."
5. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1921)
"which he says that the bonasus resembles an ox, except that it has a mane like a
... at the end of the list shows that the bonasus was slipped in later, ..."
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