vison
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vison
- Used as a specific epithet; mink.
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vison (plural visons)
- The American mink, variously classified as Neovison vison or Mustela vison.
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Inherited from Old French vison, of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from a Germanic source such as Frankish *wisulā (compare Old High German wisula (“weasel”).[1] (An alternative suggestion that the term derives from Old High German wisunt (“bison”)[2] is semantically implausible.)
Alternatively, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *viso, Latin visio (“to fart”), vissio (“stench”), in reference to their scent glands (near the anus).[3]
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vison m (plural visons)
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- “vison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “vison”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.)
- ^ Edward A. Roberts, Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish
- ^ “vison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- Hyphenation: vi‧son
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vison m (plural visons)
- Alternative form of visom