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wi·sent /ˈviːzənt/

noun  ·  Bison bonasus  ·  plural wisents, or simply wisent

1. The European bison. The largest wild land mammal on the continent, once ranging from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus through the forests of what is now most of the European Union.
2. A species declared extinct in the wild in 1927, then rebuilt from twelve captive founder animals into a free-roaming population of more than ten thousand — the only large mammal Europe has brought back from the brink.
3. figurative. Something native to Europe, lost for a time, and deliberately rebuilt.

Origin German, from Old High German wisunt; related to Old English wesend and Old Norse vísundr. The word is older than most of the borders it has crossed.