Antiq. [a. G. wisent (OHG. wisunt): see BISON.] The aurochs.
1866. J. E. Lee, trans. F. Keller’s Lake Dwellings, 356. The [urus] … as well as the bison (or wisent) … are found to have been the most abundant animals in the forests of the stone age.
1889. I. Taylor, Orig. Aryans, iii. 152.
1893. Lydekker, Horns & Hoofs, 31. The true, or European, bison … also known as the wisent or zubr.
