Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The European bison (Bison bonasus) having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison. Also called aurochs.
Wiktionary
- n. The European bison, Bison bonasus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison
Etymologies
- From German Wisent. (Wiktionary)
- German, from Middle High German, from Old High German wisunt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Before Man came herds of wisent and mastodon kept the land mostly clear, and herds of white tail roamed.”
“Notable mammals include the reintroduced bison or wisent Bison bonasus (EN), wolf Canis lupus, lynx Felis lynx, otter Lutra lutra and European beaver Castor fiber, also reintroduced.”
“The forest was declared a hunting reserve in 1541 for the protection of wisent.”
“In 1929 a small herd of four wisents was bought by the Polish state from various zoological gardens and from the Western Caucasus (where the wisent was to become extinct just several years afterwards).”
“The first recorded piece of legislation on the protection of the forest dates to 1538 when a document issued by Polish king Zygmunt Stary (Sigismund I Old) instituted the death penalty for poaching a wisent (European bison).”
“European bison or wisent as they're known in Poland are distantly related to American bison and are different in that they are forest dwellers, rather than roaming the open prairie.”
“The short-horned kind, with its hump and shaggy mane, was also fairly common east of the mountains; it closely resembled the familiar wisent of Europe.”
“Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.”
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
“Then slowe the dowghtie Sigfrid a wisent and an elk, he smote four stoute uroxen and a grim and sturdie schelk.”
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
“Starting off on the wrong hoof: A Przewalski horse and a wisent become acquainted in the new wilderness preserve they will share outside Berlin.”
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250 Spelling Words
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Tweets
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knitandpurl "As I crept along through the gloom, past engravings of wisent and aurochs and woolly rhinos, it occurred to me that I really had no clue what would drive someone to wriggle through a pitch-black tunnel to cover the walls with images that only another, similarly driven soul would see."
"Sleeping with the Enemy" by Elizabeth Kolbert, p 75 of the August 15th & 22nd, 2011 issue of the New Yorker Aug 30, 2011