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wisent

[ vee-zuhnt ]
/ ˈvi zənt /
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noun
bison (def. 2).
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Origin of wisent

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

Words nearby wisent

wise guy, wisely, Wiseman, Wise Men, wisenheimer, wisent, wise up, wise up to, wish, wishbone, wishbone boom
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How to use wisent in a sentence

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

    Men of the Old Stone Age|Henry Fairfield Osborn

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

    Men of the Old Stone Age|Henry Fairfield Osborn

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

    Man and Nature|George 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 Age|Henry Fairfield Osborn

British Dictionary definitions for wisent

wisent
/ (ˈwiːzənt) /
noun
the European bisonSee bison (def. 2)

Word Origin for wisent

German, from Old High German wisunt bison
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