Bison

Synonyms for "bison" (85 found)

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Closest matches (17)

Noun(4 words)

alas bisonian brownish buffalo

animal antelope armadillo aurochs bat beefbeef cattlebeeves bossy bovinebovine animalbrahman buffalo

Strong matches (26)

bull bullock calf carabao cattle cow critterdairy cattledairy cowdogie elephant hare heiferhornless cow

Noun(12 words)

bulldoze butt charge earthyerroneous prepositionexclamation expression forcefully gosh heavens heavily heftily

Related words (42)

horseindian buffalokangaroo kine leppy mammal maverickmilch cowmilchermilk cowmilkermuley cowmuley headmusk-ox neat opossum ox oxen pig platypus

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rat steer stirk stot wisent yak yearling zebu

Noun(14 words)

lumberingly massivelynoncanonical prepositionnonexistent pronounnonstandard prepositionnonstandard pronounparser generatorplaceholder pronountawny trampleungrammatical prepositionutterance wowyacc replacement

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More general

18 entries

appearance traitbehave bovid bovidae exclamation expressionfunctional wordgrammatical categoryinterjectionlexical categorylinguistic unitmammalmanner adverbmove noun program

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More specific

20 entries

American bisonbison behaviorbison brownbison dietbison reproductionbison tawnybulldoze butt chargedialectal interjectiondialectal prepositionexclamative markergenerated parserlalr parsermild exclamationnonpronoun usage

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Collocations

25 entries

American bisonEuropean bisonVictorian theaterarchaic interjectionbison aggressionbison chargingbison conservationbison displaybison ecologybison forwardbison fur colorbison habitatbison herdbison herd dynamicsbison meatbison migration

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Inflections

5 entries

bisoned bisoning bisonsmore bisonlikemost bisonlike

Derivations

2 entries

bisonism bisonlike

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

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When Columbus discovered America, bison (American buffalo) inhabited a wide-ranging area.

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Buffalo Bill didn't kill any bison. It was climate change that did it.

Source: tatoeba (1825410)

The bison is the national mammal of the United States.

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The bison is now the national mammal of the United States.

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