buffalo
A buffalo is a large, ox-like animal with horns and shaggy fur. In North America, a buffalo is another name for a bison.
There are various types of buffalo around the word, including South Asia’s water buffalo and the African buffalo, but the bison is the most well-known type of buffalo in the US. You can also use the word as a verb, meaning “to intimidate,” and when it’s capitalized, Buffalo is a city in New York state. These various meanings have resulted in the longest sentence in English that uses only one word: “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
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any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
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Old World buffalo-
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Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis, water buffalo, water ox
an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
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Anoa depressicornis, anoa, dwarf buffalo
small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns
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Anoa mindorensis, Bubalus mindorensis, tamarao, tamarau
small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines
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Cape buffalo, Synercus caffer
large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves
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Indian buffalo
upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk
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carabao
water buffalo of the Philippines
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bovid
hollow-horned ruminants
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large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
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American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison-
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bison
any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
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bison
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meat from an American bison
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game
the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
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game
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intimidate or overawe