buffalo
buf·falo (buf′ə lō′)
noun pl. -·loes′, -·lo′, -·los′
- any of various wild oxen, sometimes domesticated, as the water buffalo of India or Cape buffalo of Africa
- ☆ popularly the American bison
- ☆ a robe made of buffalo skin
- ☆ 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
Buf·falo (buf′ə 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
n.
Types of buffalo include: common or water buffalo, Cape buffalo, American bison, wild ox, African buffalo, Forest buffalo, European bison or wisent;
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.
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.
Shehad the rippling muscles of a panther, thesolidityof a water buffalo, and the lazy insolence of a shoe salesman.
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.
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