Zubr

Quick meaning: Zubr is a noun meaning A wisent, European bison (Bos bonasus).

Meaning

A wisent, European bison (Bos bonasus).

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) One of several species of European bison or aurochs, which were unclearly delineated in the 1800s when this sense was in use.

Example Sentences

THE European bison, wisent or zubr (Bison bonasus) seems to be coming back into circulation again, at least among menagerie keepers. The London Zoo has a pair of them.

Near it is Bialowieza, the remainder of the European primeval forest. Bialowieza is home to the zubr, or Polish bison, which is a cousin of the American buffalo. In addition to the zubr, the Polish forests are also home to the wild boar, eagles, falcons, and many other animals.

It is not improbable that the Bison mentioned by Seneca and Pliny was the Bonasus of Aristotle, and the Zubr and Auerochs of the moderns, while the Urus of these writers seems to be now extinct as a wild animal, but was perhaps the original of our present domestic cattle.* * Bojanus, however, is of a different opinion.

As an appendix to our history of the bison, it will not be out of place, if we here proceed to give a short sketch of the history of its Old World relative, the little known and almost extinct aurochs or zubr, our information respecting which is derived from a valuable paper by Dr. Weissenborn of Weimar, published in the 'Magazine of Natural History for May and June 1838.'

Word Forms

• zubrs

Synonyms for zubr

Depending on context, synonyms include wisent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aurochs, urochs, auroch, buffaloe, aurox, bubale.

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