bison

[ US /ˈbaɪsən/ ]
[ UK /bˈa‍ɪsən/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
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How To Use bison In A Sentence

  • This steak house has organically farmed beef and locally raised bison. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island. Kim Kardashian Fails the P.T. Barnum Test
  • Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
  • One is a broken awl, probably made from the neural spine of a bison vertebra.
  • After reading her comment, the only thing I would add is that properly-rotated cattle or bison eating grass actually *add* an inch of topsoil to the earth each year. A better way to die? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • Thus a succession of closely connected environmental and anthropogenic events destroyed the bison.
  • The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.
  • _ But if they are bisons, why are they called buffaloes? History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians
  • The DOL justifies the killings by saying that the bison may transmit brucellosis - a bacterial disease.
  • Bison bonasus, the European bison or wisent, has been restricted to mainland Europe throughout its history.
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