English to afrikaans meaning of

Volgens die Oxford English Dictionary verwys die selfstandige naamwoord "bison" na 'n groot, wilde soogdier met 'n ruige maanhare en groot, geboë horings, inheems aan Noord-Amerika en Europa. Die wetenskaplike naam vir die Amerikaanse bison is Bison bison, terwyl die Europese bison bekend staan as Bison bonasus. Die woord "bison" word ook gebruik om na die vleis van hierdie diere te verwys, wat algemeen deur mense geëet word.

Sentence Examples

  1. Miri wanted desperately to believe the bison were a true memory, but at the same time, wanted to believe her mistress told the truth.
  2. Even the bison, to some extent, keeps pace with the seasons, cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone.
  3. Due to a massive herd of three-horned bison covering the only road, the travelers were forced to turn back and spend the first night in the small village of Barton, just on the border between Eastland and Northland.
  4. Antelope, bustles, and bison stampeded the open land, no doubt fleeing the upsetting quake.
  5. In this case, the decoration included a few of the bison, barely four centims high, in a line across the header.
  6. The images of the bison were the first she had sensed of it since returning from the Northland.
  7. Behind this animal, the landscape lay thick with them, bison as far as the eye could see.
  8. Axandra knew that she had never seen a three-horned bison in her entire life and that had not changed on this trip.
  9. Small herds of mammoth promenaded near any water source there was, and larger herds of bison and elk were never in one place for long, doing all they could to keep ahead of wolf packs and the stealthier saber-tooth cats.
  10. So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant.