wood bison

American bison

noun

{bc}a large North American bison ({it}Bison bison{/it}) that has a dense coat of dark brown fur with a shaggy mane on the head and lower neck, short hollow horns, and heavy forequarters with a large muscular hump over the shoulders and that formerly was abundant in North America but is now reduced to small populations of plains and prairies chiefly of the central U.S. and Canada {bc}{sx|buffalo||1c(1)}