Definitions for wisents

wisents wi·sent

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

Wisents is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in wisents (einsstw).

Definitions for wisents

noun

  1. bison (def 2).

Origin of wisents

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

Examples for wisents

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

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

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.

Word Value for wisents
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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