Similar words: disenfranchisement, isentropic, disentangle, disentangled, disengagement, disenchantment, disenfranchise, disenfranchised. Meaning: n. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison.
1 A cousin of the American bison is the wisent of Europe. It is now extinct in the wild but about 400 live in the safety of zoos.
2 Just 600 wisent remain in the wild, nearly all of them here—or just half, depending on what's meant by here.
3 A Przewalski horse jumps next to a wisent (European bison) in their new wilderness region "Sielmann's natural landscape Doeberitzer Heide" on May 3, 2010 near Berlin, Germany.
4 The wisent can be found in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland.
5 Suddenly, there's a crashing in the underbrush, and a dozen wisent—Bison bonasus, European bison—burst from where they've been browsing on young shoots.
6 An animal ( B. bonasus ) of Europe, similar to but somewhat smaller than the bison; a wisent.
7 In volume 25, page 934, column 2, the encyclopaedia states that the European bison, or wisent, may be found only in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, which is also incorrect.
8 An animal ( B. bonasus ) of Europe, similar to but somewhat smaller than bison; a wisent.
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