English Dictionary: Bison | by the DICT Development Group |
5 results for Bison | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bison \Bi"son\ (b[imac]"s[ocr]n; 277), n. [L. bison, Gr. bi`swn, a wild ox; akin to OHG. wisunt, wisant, G. wisent, AS. wesend, Icel. v[c6]sundr: cf. F. bison.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The aurochs or European bison. (b) 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. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Bison, KS (city, FIPS 6950) Location: 38.51980 N, 99.19716 W Population (1990): 252 (122 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67520 Bison, OK Zip code(s): 73720 Bison, SD (town, FIPS 5620) Location: 45.52173 N, 102.46687 W Population (1990): 451 (237 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57620 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Bison++ GNU's Yacc parser generator retargeted to C++ by Alain Coetmeur {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/bison++.tar.gz)}. {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/misc++.tar.gz)}. {(ftp://psuvax1.cs.psu.edu/pub/src/gnu/bison++-1.04.tar.Z)}. (1993-07-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Bison Bison runs under {Unix} and on {Atari} computers. It was written by Robert Corbett. Latest version: 1.28, as of 2000-05-22. As of version 1.24, Bison will no longer apply the {GNU} {General Public License} to your code. You can use the output files without restriction. {FTP GNU.org (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/)} or your nearest {GNU archive site}. E-mail: {Bison++} is a version which produces {C++} output. (2000-07-05) |