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buffalo Definition

buf·falo (bufə lō′)

noun pl. -·loes′, -·lo′, -·los′

  1. any of various wild oxen, sometimes domesticated, as the water buffalo of India or Cape buffalo of Africa
  2. popularly the American bison
  3. ☆ a robe made of buffalo skin
  4. buffalo fish

Etymology: It bufalo < LL bufalus, var. of bubalus, wild ox < Gr boubalos, buffalo, antelope < bous, ox, cow

transitive verb -·loed′, -·lo′·ing

Slang to baffle, bewilder, bluff, or overawe

Buffalo Definition

Buf·falo (bufə lō′)

city in W N.Y., on Lake Erie & the Niagara River: pop. 293,000

Etymology: transl. of the name of a Seneca Indian who lived there

buffalo Synonyms

buffalo

n.

Types of buffalo include: common or water buffalo, Cape buffalo, American bison, wild ox, African buffalo, Forest buffalo, European bison or wisent;

buffalo Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • hunt: Apache warrior women who battled along side their brothers and hunted the buffalo of the plains.
  • kill: They had a meal cooked for us & said had they known we were coming they wd have killed a buffalo.
  • see: Many thousands of people have been on pilgrimages to make devotional visits to see the young buffalo.
  • include: Domestic animals include buffalo, which are used as draft animals, fowl, pigs, goats, cats, and dogs.
  • stampede: For over two thousand years, Indians stampeded buffalo over the mile-long cliff.
  • slaughter: While slaughtering 2,000 buffalo, 1,600 elk, and 100 bears, he slept every night in a brass bed.

Adjective modifier

  • wild: As a result the wild buffalo is now extinct in Uganda and many species formerly abundant are now rare.
  • African: The African buffalo: a study of resource limitation of populations.
  • American: His goal, to track the biggest mammal on the North American continent: the majestic American buffalo.

Modifies a noun

  • mozzarella: I even put in little suprises, in the form of pools of buffalo mozzarella.
  • horn: I used a piece of black buffalo horn to make a knob, capped with a slice of lilac wood.
  • hump: No, you won't grow a buffalo hump overnight.
  • robe: Beds, also made from buffalo robes, were placed around the edge of the tepee.
  • hunter: The men that killed them are considered the best buffalo hunters on the road - perfect " stars.
  • steak: Why not take some time out to have a buffalo steak at the Everest Steak House?

Noun used with modifier

  • water: They had figured out how to get milk out of water buffalo by breeding a new kind of water buffalo.
  • stage: Gives you a a zodiac stop stages buffalo bill's american queen to.
  • cape: They range in size from the tiny duikers to the huge cape buffalo.
  • forest: Tracks of forest buffalo have also been seen once ( and dung too ).
  • bill: Of this measure you may also to bill buffalo cover hitch nfl team trailer touch feel.
buffalo Quotes

A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go.What is Life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

—Haggard, Sir (Henry) Rider

Shehad the rippling muscles of a panther, thesolidityof a water buffalo, and the lazy insolence of a shoe salesman.

—Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day.

—Higley, Brewster   d.1911