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wisent

[ vee-zuhnt ]

wisent

/ ˈwiːzənt /

noun

  1. the European bison See bison


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wisent1

First recorded in 1865–70; from German; Old High German wisunt; compare Old English wesend, weosend, Old Norse vīsundr, Old Prussian wissambrs, Greek bísōn bison

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Word History and Origins

Origin of wisent1

German, from Old High German wisunt bison

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Example Sentences

Grazing in the meadows were the aurochs, or wild ox, and the wisent, or bison.

It is uncertain whether the Wisent does not also occur in Siberia.

Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.

The urus survived in Germany as late as the seventeenth century, while a few of the bison or 'wisent' survive to the present time.

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