Definitions for wisent

wisent wi·sent

Spelling: [vee-zuh nt]
IPA: /ˈvi zənt/

Wisent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in wisent (einstw).

Definitions for wisent

noun

  1. bison (def 2).

Origin of wisent

1865-70; German; Old High German wisunt; compare Old English wesend, weosend, Old Norse vīsundr, OPruss wissambrs, Greek bísōn bison

Examples for wisent

The urus survived in Germany as late as the seventeenth century, while a few of the bison or 'wisent' survive to the present time.

It is uncertain whether the wisent does not also occur in Siberia.

Modern naturalists identify the elk with the eland, the wisent with the auerochs.

Grazing in the meadows were the aurochs, or wild ox, and the wisent, or bison.

Word Value for wisent
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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