Buffalo

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1. Noun

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. Noun

A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

3. Noun

Any species of wild ox.

4. Noun

The bison of North America.

5. Noun

A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

6. Noun

The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

7. Noun

any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo
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8. Noun

large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
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