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Buffalo

Buffalo Meaning & Definition
Buffalo Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Buffalo?

[n] any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
[n] large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
[n] meat from an American bison
[n] a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
[v] intimidate or overawe

Synonyms | Synonyms for Buffalo: American bison | American buffalo | Bison bison | Old World buffalo

Related Terms | Find terms related to Buffalo: addle | amaze | aurochs | baffle | balk | bamboozle | beat | beef | beef cattle | beeves | bilk | bison | boggle | bossy | bovine | bovine animal | Brahman | bull | bullock | calf | carabao | cattle | circumvent | confound | cow | critter | dairy cattle | dairy cow | dash | daze | disappoint | dogie | floor | foil | fuddle | get | heifer | hornless cow | Indian buffalo | keep in suspense | kine | leppy | lick | maverick | maze | milch cow | milcher | milk cow | milker | muddle | muley cow | muley head | musk-ox | mystify | neat | nonplus | ox | oxen | perplex | puzzle | ruin | steer | stick | stirk | stot | stump | throw | wisent | yak | yearling | zebu

See Also | American bison | American buffalo | anoa | Anoa depressicornis | Anoa mindorensis | Asiatic buffalo | bison | Bison bison | bovid | Bovidae | Bubalus bubalis | Bubalus mindorensis | buffalo | buffalo | Cape buffalo | city | cow | dwarf buffalo | Empire State | family Bovidae | game | genus Bison | metropolis | New York | New York State | NY | overawe | Synercus caffer | tamarao | tamarau | urban center | water buffalo | water ox

Buffalo In Webster's Dictionary

\Buf"fa*lo\, n.; pl. {Buffaloes}. [Sp. bufalo (cf. It. bufalo, F. buffle), fr. L. bubalus, bufalus, a kind of African stag or gazelle; also, the buffalo or wild ox, fr. Gr. ? buffalo, prob. fr. ? ox. See {Cow} the animal, and cf. {Buff} the color, and {Bubale}.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A species of the genus {Bos} or {Bubalus} ({B. bubalus}), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A very large and savage species of the same genus ({B. Caffer}) found in South Africa; -- called also {Cape buffalo}. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of wild ox. 4. (Zo["o]l.) The bison of North America. 5. A buffalo robe. See {Buffalo robe}, below. 6. (Zo["o]l.) The buffalo fish. See {Buffalo fish}, below. {Buffalo berry} (Bot.), a shrub of the Upper Missouri ({Sherherdia argentea}) with acid edible red berries. {Buffalo bird} (Zo["o]l.), an African bird of the genus {Buphaga}, of two species. These birds perch upon buffaloes and cattle, in search of parasites. {Buffalo bug}, the carpet beetle. See under {Carpet}. {Buffalo chips}, dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel. [U.S.] {Buffalo clover} (Bot.), a kind of clover ({Trifolium reflexum} and {T.soloniferum}) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison. {Buffalo cod} (Zo["o]l.), a large, edible, marine fish ({Ophiodon elongatus}) of the northern Pacific coast; -- called also {blue cod}, and {cultus cod}. {Buffalo fish} (Zo["o]l.), one of several large fresh-water fishes of the family {Catostomid[ae]}, of the Mississippi valley. The red-mouthed or brown ({Ictiobus bubalus}), the big-mouthed or black ({Bubalichthys urus}), and the small-mouthed ({B. altus}), are among the more important species used as food. {Buffalo fly}, or {Buffalo gnat} (Zo["o]l.), a small dipterous insect of the genus {Simulium}, allied to the black fly of the North. It is often extremely abundant in the lower part of the Mississippi valley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits. {Buffalo grass} (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass ({Buchlo["e] dactyloides}), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or bisons, feed. [U.S.] {Buffalo nut} (Bot.), the oily and drupelike fruit of an American shrub ({Pyrularia oleifera}); also, the shrub itself; oilnut. {Buffalo robe}, the skin of the bison of North America, prepared with the hair on; -- much used as a lap robe in sleighs.

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