Crossword clues for wisent
Wiktionary
n. The European bison, ''(l mul Bison bonasus)''.
WordNet
n. European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison [syn: aurochs, Bison bonasus]
Wikipedia
Wisent is flavoured vodka produced by Polmos Łańcut in Poland containing the bison grass. According to its producer it is natural, using herbs and stimulating energy. It contains 40% alcohol by volume.
The Wisent is an 8x8 armoured logistics vehicle built by Rheinmetall. It is designed to be airliftable by the Airbus A400M.
It can be fitted with various modules, for cargo carrying, medical use, troop transport, and so on.
The Wisent can also be fitted with various weapons, including an RCWS.
Wisent is an alternative name for the European bison.
Wisent may also refer to:
- Wisent (eisbrecher) an icebreaker operated by the German Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt
- Wisent (vehicle), a German military vehicle
- Wisent (vodka), a flavored Polish vodka
A large Air-cushioned landing craft (i.e. built in the Ukraine and exported to the PR of China) is known as 'European Bison'
Usage examples of "wisent".
Big blond men surged around emblems brought from sacred groves and bloody rites, poles or litters that held skulls or rude carvings of bear, boar, wisent, aurochs, elk, stag, wildcat, wolf.
Fumbling around on your niggard acres, with your starveling livestock, when more and more big game is moving south ahead of the glaciers, elk, reindeer, boar, horse, aurochs, wisent, mammoth.
Plus several big brown bears, a distant glimpse of wolves looking curiously back from a ridgeline, a sure-enough group of wisent, European bison, and black, bristling-fierce wild boar out grazing on fallen acorns.