AMERICAN BISON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does American bison mean? 

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

1. large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMERICAN BISON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo

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

bison (any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns)

Meronyms (parts of "American bison"):

buffalo (meat from an American bison)

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

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

 Context examples 

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)