GENUS BISON
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Bison mean? • GENUS BISON (noun)
The noun GENUS BISON has 1 sense:
1. sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo
Familiarity information: GENUS BISON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS BISON (noun)
Meaning:
Sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("genus Bison" is a kind of...):
mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "genus Bison"):
bison (any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns)
American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo (large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains)
aurochs; Bison bonasus; wisent (European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison)
Holonyms ("genus Bison" is a member of...):
Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)
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