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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vee-zuh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈvi zənt |
Définition of wisent
- As in bison : noun buffalo
- Grazing in the meadows were the aurochs, or wild ox, and the wisent, or bison.
- Extract from : « Men of the Old Stone Age » by Henry Fairfield Osborn
- It is uncertain whether the Wisent does not also occur in Siberia.
- Extract from : « Men of the Old Stone Age » by Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.
- Extract from : « Man and Nature » by George P. Marsh
- The urus survived in Germany as late as the seventeenth century, while a few of the bison or 'wisent' survive to the present time.
- Extract from : « Men of the Old Stone Age » by Henry Fairfield Osborn
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