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bison
/ˈbaɪ̯sən/
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What does bison mean?
noun
- A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.
proper noun
- A city and town in Kansas.
- A town, the county seat of Perkins County, South Dakota.
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IPA pronunciation
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So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.
His pony stumbled and threw him, after they had wounded the bison, and the latter attacked the dismounted man viciously.
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There in the dust were the unmistakable hoof-marks of a small band of bison, apparently but a few hours old.
Horns of enormous size, said to have belonged to this humped ox or bison, were for many ages preserved in the church.
The bison, indeed, could not convert the forest into a pasture, but he would do much to prevent the pasture from becoming a forest.