GENUS BISON

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 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)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo

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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)