Definition of bison Bison
/bajˈsʌn/ - [baysun] - bi•son
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What does bison mean?
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NounPlural: bison |
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| bison - any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | ||
| bovid hollow-horned ruminants | ||
| genus bison sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo | ||
| american bison, american buffalo, bison bison, buffalo large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- bison (n.)
The aurochs or European bison. - bison (n.)
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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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bison
A wild heavy bison of the species Bison bison, having a broad massive horned head.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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bison
bī′son, or bis′on, n. a large wild animal like the bull, found in Lithuania, the Caucasus, &c., with shaggy hair and a fatty hump on its shoulders.—The American 'buffalo' is also a bison. [From L. pl. bisontes, prob. of Teut. origin; cf. Old High Ger. wisunt, A.S. wesend.]
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Bisons are a group of even-toed ungulate mammals. They form the genus "Bison" of the subfamily Bovinae and the family Bovidae.
Habitat.
Bison live in the northern part of the world. The American Bison lives in North America, and the Wisent lives in Europe.
Life.
They live to be about 20 years old and are born without their "hump" or horns, which both males and females have. After shedding their light colored hair, and with their horns, they are grown at 2 to 3 years of age, but the males keep growing slowly until about age seven. Adult bulls are very dominant in mating season.
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