Bison (disambiguation)

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Bison may mean:

• Bison, a large ungulate, sometimes called buffalo

• Computing

• GNU_bison, a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-free grammar into an LALR or GLR parser for that grammar

• Places

• Bison, Kansas
• Bison, Oklahoma
• Bison, South Dakota
• Bison Brewery in Berkeley, California

• Fictional Characters

• Bison (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Black Bison, a comic book supervillain
• Bucknell Bison, the official mascot of Bucknell University
• M. Bison, a character from the video game Street Fighter II
• Balrog (Street Fighter), a character from the video game Street Fighter II known as M. Bison in Japan

• Military
  • Avro Bison, a biplane spotter aircraft

• Bison armoured personnel carrier, a Canadian fighting vehicle of the Mowag Piranha family
• Bizon (Bison), A Russian submachine gun
• Myasishchev M-4, a Soviet strategic bomber (NATO reporting name Bison)
• Thorneycroft Bison Mobile pillbox, Britain, WWII.

• Acronyms

• BISON was an acronym referring to the founding companies of X/Open
• Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON), a network of six remote solar observatories

• Miscellaneous

• Żubrówka, or Bison vodka
• Bison Dele, basketball player
• Basingstoke Bison, an ice hockey club from the United Kingdom.