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bi⋅son

  [bahy-suhn, -zuhn]
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–noun, plural -son.
1. Also called American bison, American buffalo. a North American, oxlike ruminant, Bison bison, having a large head and high, humped shoulders: formerly common in North America, its small remaining population in isolated western areas of the U.S. and Canada is now protected.
2. Also called wisent. a related animal, Bison bonasus, of Europe, less shaggy and slightly larger than the American bison: now greatly reduced in number.
Compare buffalo.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME bisontes (pl.) < L (nom. sing. bisōn) < Gmc; cf. OHG wisunt, OE wesend, ON visundr

Related forms:
bi⋅son⋅tine  [bahy-suhn-tahyn, -zuhn-] , adjective
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bi·son   (bī'sən, -zən)   
n.   pl. bison

  1. A bovine mammal (Bison bison) of western North America, having large forequarters, a shaggy mane, and a massive head with short curved horns; a buffalo.

  2. An animal (B. bonasus) of Europe, similar to but somewhat smaller than the bison; a wisent.


[Latin bisōn, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German wisunt.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
bison

  1. in.
    to vomit. (Probably a play on yak.) : He stepped aside to bison in the bushes.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bison 
1601, from L. bison "wild ox," borrowed from P.Gmc. *wisand- "aurochs" (cf. O.N. visundr, O.H.G. wisunt "bison," O.E./M.E. wesend, which is not attested after c.1400). Possibly ult. of Baltic or Slavic origin, and meaning "the stinking animal," in ref. to its scent while rutting (see weasel). A European wild ox formerly widespread on the continent, including the British Isles, now surviving on forest reserves in Lithuania. Applied 1693 to the N.Amer. species commonly mis-called a buffalo.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

Bison tool
GNU's replacement for the yacc parser generator. Bison runs under Unix and on Atari computers. It was written by Robert Corbett.
Latest version: 1.28, as of 2000-05-22.
As of version 1.24, Bison will no longer apply the GNU General Public License to your code. You can use the output files without restriction.
FTP GNU.org or your nearest GNU archive site.
E-mail: .
Bison++ is a version which produces C++ output.
(2000-07-05)

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