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# bison

«bison» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large wild animal of the cattle family with a big…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a bison, bison or bisons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bison is a large wild animal of the cattle family with a big shaggy head, curved horns and a hump on its back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#m1)

2) American bison live in North America and are often called buffalo; European bison (wisent) live in forests in Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons, bison show how animals can nearly die out and be saved: there were once millions on the North American plains, then very few, and now they are protected. Native American peoples used bison for food, clothes and tools. Phrases: a herd of bison, American bison, European bison.

### examples

- A herd of bison grazed on the plains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#x1)
- The bison has a big hump on its back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#x2)
- Millions of bison once lived in North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#x3)
- We saw bison at the national park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#x4)
- Bison are herbivores; they eat grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#x5)
- A young bison is called a calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#x6)
- If a herd has 40 bison and 9 calves are born, there are 49. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/#x7)

### note

Plural: usually bison (the same as singular), sometimes bisons. Americans often call it a buffalo, but true buffalo live in Africa and Asia — a common confusion. Pronounced "BY-sun".

### In the corpora

- [The European bison, zubr in Ukrainian, is the heaviest land animal in Europe; a big bull weighs about 900 kilograms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears/6/)
- [European bison are calmer than American bison but are still dangerous if people come too close.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/372-ukraine-s-forests-bison-elk-lynx-wolves-and-carpathian-brown-bears/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bison» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bison/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.