wisent
[vee-zuh nt]
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Origin of wisent
1865–70; < German; Old High German wisunt; compare Old English wesend, weosend, Old Norse vīsundr, OPruss wissambrs, Greek bísōn bison
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Grazing in the meadows were the aurochs, or wild ox, and the wisent, or bison.
Men of the Old Stone AgeHenry Fairfield Osborn
It is uncertain whether the Wisent does not also occur in Siberia.
Men of the Old Stone AgeHenry Fairfield Osborn
Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.
Man and NatureGeorge P. Marsh
The urus survived in Germany as late as the seventeenth century, while a few of the bison or 'wisent' survive to the present time.
Men of the Old Stone AgeHenry Fairfield Osborn
wisent
- the European bisonSee bison (def. 2)
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Word Origin for wisent
German, from Old High German wisunt bison
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