Synonyms for wisent


Grammar : Noun
Spell : vee-zuh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvi zənt


Définition of wisent

  • As in bison : noun buffalo
Example sentences :
  • 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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