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词汇 bison
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Definition of bison in English:

bison

noun ˈbʌɪs(ə)nˈbaɪs(ə)n
  • A humpbacked shaggy-haired wild ox native to North America and Europe.

    犎牛,野牛

    Genus Bison, family Bovidae: B. bison of North American prairies (also called buffalo), and B. bonasus of European forests (also called wisent), now found only in Poland. These are sometimes regarded as a single species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wolves primarily hunt in packs for large prey such as moose, elk, bison, musk oxen, and reindeer.
    • Today the wood and plains bison in North America are the only surviving populations.
    • Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
    • Among the animals most commonly represented are the bison, the bull and the horse.
    • From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
    • The cowboys left long ago, but the elk, bison, pronghorns, coyote and moose are still at large in a chilly wilderness.
    • They were once hunted by sportsmen in India as ‘big game’ as was the American bison.
    • The archaeologists last week unearthed engravings of a bison, another ibex, part of a horse and some triangular shapes.
    • The haste to pass the area before dusk when elephants and bison come to the waterholes added anxiety to exhaustion.
    • It appears to depict a bison's head and forequarters attached to a humanlike body.
    • One of his subjects was a male bison sent to Paris from the United States in 1819.
    • Sometimes they used the flames to drive the bison someplace for easier and safer killing by people on foot.
    • There are tigers here, but it's elephants, monkeys and bison that you're most likely to see sipping at the reserve's lakes.
    • Elks and bison, it seems, adapted better to the new landscape than mammoths and horses.
    • The only thing I can figure is that they want the diseased bison to infect cattle and thereby harm the beef industry.
    • Grazing has always been allowed because cattle mimic the impact bison had on the natural landscape.
    • The bison naturally migrate to Horse Butte during the winter to find food and escape deep snows.
    • Expect to spot bison, elk, deer, moose, coyote and many winter birds during your ski.
    • Then, in 1997, Igor organized an effort to bring the European bison back to the forest.
    • Wild bison roamed the streets in America and Canada when once they had walked the plains.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to wisent.

Rhymes

Meissen, Tyson

Definition of bison in US English:

bison

nounˈbaɪs(ə)nˈbīs(ə)n
  • A humpbacked shaggy-haired wild ox native to North America and Europe.

    犎牛,野牛

    Genus Bison, family Bovidae: B. bison of North American prairies (also called buffalo), and B. bonasus of European forests (also called wisent), now found only in Poland. These are sometimes regarded as a single species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wild bison roamed the streets in America and Canada when once they had walked the plains.
    • Then, in 1997, Igor organized an effort to bring the European bison back to the forest.
    • The haste to pass the area before dusk when elephants and bison come to the waterholes added anxiety to exhaustion.
    • Doubtless they hunted horses there, as well as the roaming bison, woolly rhino and hyena.
    • It appears to depict a bison's head and forequarters attached to a humanlike body.
    • The bison naturally migrate to Horse Butte during the winter to find food and escape deep snows.
    • One of his subjects was a male bison sent to Paris from the United States in 1819.
    • Sometimes they used the flames to drive the bison someplace for easier and safer killing by people on foot.
    • From North America came squirrels and raccoons, bears and bison, eagles and an elk.
    • Expect to spot bison, elk, deer, moose, coyote and many winter birds during your ski.
    • Among the animals most commonly represented are the bison, the bull and the horse.
    • They were once hunted by sportsmen in India as ‘big game’ as was the American bison.
    • Elks and bison, it seems, adapted better to the new landscape than mammoths and horses.
    • Today the wood and plains bison in North America are the only surviving populations.
    • There are tigers here, but it's elephants, monkeys and bison that you're most likely to see sipping at the reserve's lakes.
    • The only thing I can figure is that they want the diseased bison to infect cattle and thereby harm the beef industry.
    • The archaeologists last week unearthed engravings of a bison, another ibex, part of a horse and some triangular shapes.
    • The cowboys left long ago, but the elk, bison, pronghorns, coyote and moose are still at large in a chilly wilderness.
    • Wolves primarily hunt in packs for large prey such as moose, elk, bison, musk oxen, and reindeer.
    • Grazing has always been allowed because cattle mimic the impact bison had on the natural landscape.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to wisent.

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