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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Wisent. Doublet of bison.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wisent (plural wisents)
- The European bison, Bison bonasus.
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- (a member of the Genus Bison): bison
- (a cloven-hoofed ruminant mammal of the subfamily Bovinae, cattle): bovine
- (a hoofed mammal chewing cud): ruminant
Hyponyms
[edit]- (only surviving purebred subspecies, Bison bonasus bonasus): lowland wisent
- (subspecies only surviving as a hybrid, Bison bonasus caucasicus): Caucasian wisent
- (extinct subspecies, Bison bonasus hungarorum): Carpathian wisent
- steppe wisent
Translations
[edit]European bison, Bison bonasus
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Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Wisent in the 19th century. The native word, Middle Dutch wesende, from Old Dutch *wisent (in the placename Wisenthurst) had by then long been obsolete due to the medieval extinction of the species in Western Europe.
Breeding programmes and the establishment of several viable herds in the Netherlands has since the early 21st century rendered the word familiar to a broader audience; it was previously mostly restricted to a learned context.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]wisent m (plural wisenten, diminutive wisentje n)
Further reading
[edit]wisent on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
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- en:Bovines
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