American bison

English

An American bison

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɛɹɪkən ˈbaɪ̯sən/

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Noun

American bison (plural American bison or American bisons)

1. A bovine mammal, a species of bison, Bison bison.
   • 1889, William T. Hornaday, The Extermination of the American Bison‎^[1]:

     In the year 1521, when Cortez reached Anahuac, the American bison was seen for the first time by civilized Europeans, if we may be permitted to thus characterize the horde of blood thirsty plunder seekers who fought their way to the Aztec capital.

Synonyms

• American buffalo
• North American buffalo
• North American bison
• buffalo (informal)
• bison (informal)

Hypernyms

• bison
• bovine
• bovid

Hyponyms

• plains bison
• wood bison

Translations

mammal

• Albanian: bizoni amerikan
• Asturian: bisonte americanu (ast)
• Basque: bisonte amerikar
• Belarusian: бізон амерыканскі (bizón amjerykanski)
• Breton: bizon amerika
• Bulgarian: бизо́н (bizón)
• Catalan: bisó americà m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 美洲野牛 (Měizhōu yěniú)

• Czech: bizon (cs)
• Danish: amerikansk bison
• Dutch: bizon (nl) m
• Esperanto: bizono, amerika bizono
• Estonian: ameerika piison
• Faroese: amerikanskur bisonur
• Finnish: biisoni (fi)
• French: bison d’Amérique (fr) m
• Friulian: bisont american
• Galician: bisonte americano
• German: Nordamerikanischer Bison m
• Greek: βόνασος (vónasos)
• Hungarian: amerikai bölény
• Icelandic: vísundur
• Irish: bíosún meiriceánach m
• Italian: bisonte americano
• Ladin: bisont american
• Latin: bos bison
• Latvian: bizons
• Lithuanian: bizonas
• Lower Sorbian: bizon
• Macedonian: американски бизон (amerikanski bizon)
• Maltese: buflu ta’ l-amerika
• Navajo: ayání
• Norwegian: amerikansk bison
• Occitan: bisont d'america
• Polish: bizon (pl)
• Portuguese: bisão-americano (pt) m, bisonte-americano (pt) m
• Romani: bufalo m
• Romanian: bizon (ro)
• Romansch: bison american
• Russian: бизо́н (ru) m (bizón)
• Sardinian: boiamericanu, boe americanu
• Scottish Gaelic: bìoson Ameireaganach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: амерички бизон

  Roman: američki bizon

• Slovak: bizón
• Slovene: bizon (sl)
• Spanish: bisonte americano m
• Swedish: amerikansk bison, bison (sv), bisonoxe (sv) c
• Turkish: bizon (tr)
• Ukrainian: бізон (uk) (bizon)
• Upper Sorbian: bizon
• Welsh: bual Americanaidd m
• West Frisian: bizon

See also

• European bison