BISON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bison mean? 

• BISON (noun)
  The noun BISON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BISON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BISON (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

The discovery shows the Ancient North Siberians endured extreme conditions in the region 31,000 years ago and survived by hunting woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, and bison.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

These American bison, commonly called buffalo, came from the National Bison Range in western Montana run by the U.S. federal government.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)