bison

English Thesaurus

1. any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bovid,
definition	:	hollow-horned ruminants (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	american bison, american buffalo, bison bison, buffalo,
definition	:	large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	aurochs, bison bonasus, wisent,
definition	:	European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus bison,
definition	:	sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo (noun.animal)