Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bison-like; related to or resembling a bison; belonging to the genus Bison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of, relating to, or characteristic of bison.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling a
bison
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of bison
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1895 OW 1886 OW Fully fifty-four of my discoveries have to do with land animals: alcine elk, moose W dasyurine dasyure antelopine antelope W (1839-47) OW aspine asp 1644 O didelphine opossum bisontine bison 1885 - 1847 OW
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