bison

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• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ̯sən/,[1][2][3][4] (US also) /ˈbaɪ̯zən/[1][2][3]

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• Rhymes: -aɪsən, -aɪzən

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1. A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

• bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Ibson, binos, bions

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• IPA^(key): /bi.zɔ̃/

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bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)

1. buffalo (North American bison)
2. wisent (European bison)

• → Russian: бизо́н (bizón) (see there for further descendants)

• “bison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (plural), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbisɔn]
• Hyphenation: bi‧son

bison (first-person possessive bisonku, second-person possessive bisonmu, third-person possessive bisonnya)

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value): a large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.

• “bison” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

1st century; together with Ancient Greek βίσων (bísōn) (2nd century; cf. modern Greek βίσονας (vísonas)) borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.soːn/, [ˈbɪs̠oːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.son/, [ˈbiːs̬on]

bisōn m (genitive bisōntis); third declension

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• “bison”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

bison f (plural bisons)

1. (Jersey) bison