bison

English - Turkish

Definition of bison in English Turkish dictionary

bir çeşit Kuzey Amerika yabani sığırı

{i} bizon

Bizon ABD'nin ulusal memelisidir. - The bison is the national mammal of the United States.

Bizon şimdi ABD'nin ulusal memelisidir. - The bison is now the national mammal of the United States.

(Gıda) bufalo

{i} yaban öküzü

{i} (çoğ. bi.son) (Zooloji) bizon

dombay

american bison

amerikan bizonu

English - English

Definition of bison in English English dictionary: A wild ox, Bison bonasus; A similar American animal, Bison bison else Bos americanus or Bisonte americano; also called a buffalo; {n} a quadruped of the cow kind; The aurochs or European bison; Large European mammals with a shaggy mane, a large head with short horns and heavy forequarters surmounted by a large fleshy hump Closely related to cattle One of a number of animals which moved into the thicker wooded landscape after the last ice age; Upper-case The University of Manitoba Libraries' online public access catalogue; Called "hunchbacked cows" by Coronado when he saw them in Texas; taste is similar to beef, but slightly sweet; {i} large mammal of the ox family; any of several large shaggy-maned humped bovids having large heads and short horns; The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers; A bison is a large hairy animal with a large head that is a member of the cattle family. They used to be very common in North America and Europe. = buffalo. Either species (genus Bison) of oxlike bovid with a convex forehead and a pronounced shoulder hump. Its dark brown, coarse hair is especially long on the head, which is held low, and on the neck and shoulders. Both sexes bear heavy, curved horns. A mature bull stands about 6.5 ft (2 m) at the shoulder and weighs more than 1,980 lb (900 kg). Bison live in herds. The American bison (B. bison), commonly called buffalo, was abundant over most of North America when Europeans arrived. Uncontrolled hunting drove it nearly to extinction by 1900, but it has since recovered. The European bison (B. bonasus) is similar and survives only in a few managed herds
bison grass: An aromatic herb native to North America and Eurasia. It's commonly used in herbal medicines and alcoholic beverages
American bison: A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison
European bison: The wisent, species Bison bonasus, Europe's heaviest land animal
american bison: large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
bisons: plural of bison
genus bison: sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo

bison

Hyphenation

bi·son

Turkish pronunciation

baysın

Synonyms

wisent, bison bonasus, american buffalo, american bison

Pronunciation

/ˈbīsən/ /ˈbaɪsən/

Etymology

() Middle English bisontes (plural) from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”), of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *wīsundaz, *wīsand- (“wild ox, aurochs”) from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”). Akin to Old High German wisunt "bison" (German Wisent "bison"), Old English wesend, wusend "bison, buffalo, wild ox", Middle Dutch wēsent "wild ox".