Library / English Dictionary

BISON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("bison" is a kind of...):

bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bison"):

American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo (large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains)

aurochs; Bison bonasus; wisent (European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison)

Holonyms ("bison" is a member of...):

genus Bison (sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo)

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