bonassus

plural bonassuses · alternative bonasus

1. A bonnacon.

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   There follows a series of exotic animals from the East, such as panthers, bonassuses, rhinoceroses, unicorns, and rare serpents (11.13).[…]References to panthers may be found in 26, to rhinoceroses in 39, to unicorns in 64, and to bonassuses and serpents in 52 (The Excellent and Pleasant Worke of Iulius Solinus, trans. Arthur Golding [London: Thomas Hacket, 1587]. Accessed August 23, 2010, <[…]>).

   2012, Christina H. Lee, “Imagining China in a Golden Age Spanish Epic”, in Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522–1657, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN

2. The aurochs, or European bison.