Crossword-Solution: BISON 5 letters, 216 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Bison n. The aurochs or European bison.
Bison n. The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large,
gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns,
which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of
North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the
region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

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BISON anagram BINOS, BONIS, NOBIS, SIBON

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A baby one is called a red dog 1 answer
A shaggy-haired wild ox with a humped back 1 answer
Almost extinct animal. 1 answer
American grazers 1 answer
Animal featured on Wyoming's flag 1 answer
Animal featured on the flag of Wyoming 1 answer
Animal for a nickel 1 answer
Animal in a Yellowstone stampede 1 answer
Animal in some ancient cave art 1 answer
Animal of the plains. 1 answer
Animal on Wyoming's flag 1 answer
Animal on a Buffalo nickel 1 answer
Animal on a coin. 1 answer
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Animal on an old nickel 1 answer
Animal on nickels of yore 1 answer
Animal on the backs of three state quarters 1 answer
Animals in a Western herd 1 answer
Animals of Western plains. 1 answer
Animals on coins. 1 answer
Answer to the joke, "What did the buffalo say when his boy left for college?" 1 answer
Badlands National Park sight 1 answer
Badlands animal 1 answer
Badlands beast 1 answer
Badlands bovine 1 answer
Badlands creature 1 answer
Badlands herd member 1 answer
Beast on Wyoming's flag 1 answer
Beast on an old nickel 1 answer
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Beast on old nickels, really 1 answer
Beefalo parent 1 answer
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Big game of the wild West. 1 answer
Big-headed bovine 1 answer
Bucknell mascot 1 answer
Bucknell sports team 1 answer
Buffalo bull 1 answer
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Buffalo minor leaguer 1 answer
Buffalo nickel beast, really 1 answer
Buffalo or wisent 1 answer
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Cody's prey. 1 answer
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Coin depiction until 1938 1 answer
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Creature on the Kansas quarter 1 answer
Figure on a nickel. 1 answer
Former rangers 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BISON (5)

Full upon the crown it struck him, At the roots of his long tresses, And he reeled and staggered forward, Plunging like a wounded bison, Yes, like Pezhekee, the bison, When the snow is on the prairie.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992
His face was brown like a nut; he had very bright and restless brown eyes; his dark hair was brushed back stiffly in front and cropped close behind, outlining a square and powerful skull; and he had a huge black moustache like the horns of a bison.
The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
Owre, Ox.] (Zo”l.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Europ‘us), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
The imminent prospect of the larger carnivores, to say nothing of rhinoceroses and bull bison, roaming at large and unfed in the heart of London, was not one which permitted of prolonged conferences.
Beasts and Super-Beasts Saki 2011

Quotes with BISON (3)

Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to do with how your body responds to another body like robins or bison or maybe you believe love is how forces or nature or luck is benign to you in particular not maiming or killing you but if so doing it for your own good. Love is none of that. Th…
Toni Morrison Paradise
There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be who they are (even as they cannot help being who they are.) We have a language that reflects how we learn to paint, but not how we learn to paint our paintings. How do you describe the [reader to place words here] that changes when craft swells to art?" Artists come together with the clear knowledge that when all is said and done, they will return to…
David Bayles Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils of Artmaking
To reach the farthest chamber of Lascaux, it's likely a man had to snuff out his light, lower himself down a shaft with a rope made of twisted fibers, and then rekindle his lamp in the dark so as to draw the woolly rhinoceros, the half horse, and the raging bison there. A long spear transfixes that bison, and entrails pour from its side. Beneath its front hooves lies the one painted man in all of Lascaux: prone, spindly wounded, disguised behind a bird mask. And below him, un…
Jane Brox Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
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Used 220 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).