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Meanings of wisent in English

Portuguese
bisonte-europeu
Catalan
bisó europeu
Spanish
bison bonasus

European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison.

bisonte-europeu
Synonyms
Examples for "aurochs"
Examples for "aurochs"
1
This is an Eurasian aurochs, the ancestor of our modern domestic cattle.
Rogues
2
It wasn't that much different, I reflected, from hunting the aurochs.
Secrets of the Wolves
3
Master Bones began giggling when the aurochs went down for the first time.
Rogues
4
Used to come over to my mother's nest to gut aurochs.
Seraphina
5
Why don't we just try hunting the aurochs with your pack?
Secrets of the Wolves
Usage of wisent in English
1
Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
2
Then slowe the dowghtie Sigfrid a wisent and an elk, he smote four stoute uroxen and a grim and sturdie schelk.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
3
[Footnote: Dar nach sluoger schiere, einen wisent unde elch.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
Translations for wisent
Wisent through the time