🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
TOEFL BNC: 26540 COCA: 10820

bison

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
bison /ˈbaɪsn̩/ noun
plural bison also bisons
bison
/ˈbaɪsn̩/
noun
plural bison also bisons
Learner's definition of BISON
[count]
: a large, hairy wild animal that has a big head and short horns野牛
called also (US) buffalo
TOEFL BNC: 26540 COCA: 10820

bison

noun

bi·​son ˈbī-sᵊn How to pronounce bison (audio) -zᵊn How to pronounce bison (audio)
plural bison
: any of several large living or extinct bovine mammals (genus Bison) that have a long, broad head, short, hollow horns, heavy forequarters, a large muscular hump across the shoulders, and a shaggy mane on the head and lower neck and that typically live and migrate in herds: such as
bisontine adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Mix salt and pepper to taste into the ground bison. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022 Where those native grazers no longer dominate — think of the vanished bison from the American prairies, for example — domestic livestock can fill the same role. Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022 After being hunted nearly to extinction, the American bison has slowly come back in the West and is a common sight at Yellowstone National Park. Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 16 Aug. 2022 Thanks to the same hard-fought regional campaign that first attracted federal interest in the Wichitas, the New York Zoological Park donated 15 bison to help the refuge establish a new herd and prevent the animal’s extinction. Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021 The tribes have begun reintroducing bison to their traditional grazing lands for ecological and cultural revitalization. Kylie Mohr, Wired, 23 Oct. 2021 Custer is truly a national-caliber state park, thanks to its high-winding scenic drives and a safari-like Wildlife Loop starring pronghorn, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, burros, the elusive mountain goat, and around 1,400 bison. Simon Peter Groebner, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021 And to build food independence, one tribe raises bison, some of which are killed each year. Rodney Ho, ajc, 12 July 2022 The man and child were thrown into the air but were able to sprint away from the bison, which walked away. Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Latin bisont-, bison, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German wisant aurochs; akin to Old Prussian wissambrs aurochs

First Known Use

circa 1611, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bison was circa 1611
TOEFL BNC: 26540 COCA: 10820

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime