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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

bison
     n : any of several large shaggy-maned humped bovids having large
         heads and short horns

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Bison \Bi"son\ (b[imac]"s[o^]n; 277), n. [L. bison, Gr. bi`swn,
   a wild ox; akin to OHG. wisunt, wisant, G. wisent, AS.
   wesend, Icel. v[=i]sundr: cf. F. bison.] (Zo["o]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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

Bison

   <tool> GNU's replacement for the yacc parser generator.
   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 or your nearest
   GNU archive site.

   E-mail: <bug-bison@gnu.org>.

   Bison++ is a version which produces C++ output.

   (2000-07-05)
Bison++

   GNU's Yacc parser generator retargeted to C++ by Alain
   Coetmeur <<a href="mailto:coetmeur@icdc.fr">coetmeur@icdc.fr>.  Version 1.04.

   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)

Source: U.S. Gazetteer (1990) 

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