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   buffalo

   /ˈbʌfələʊ/

   noun

   • 1. a heavily built wild ox with backswept horns, found mainly in the Old World tropics.
   • 2. the North American bison.
   • 3. a large greyish-olive freshwater fish with thick lips, common in North America.

   verb

   • 1. overawe or intimidate (someone): informal North American "she didn't like being buffaloed"
   • ▪ baffle (someone): informal North American "the problem has buffaloed the advertising staff"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: probably from Portuguese bufalo, from late Latin bufalus, from earlier bubalus, from Greek boubalos ‘antelope, wild ox’.

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2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › buffaloBuffalo Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   especially : a large North American bison (Bison bison) that has a dense coat of dark brown fur with a shaggy mane on the head and lower neck, short hollow horns, and heavy forequarters with a large muscular hump over the shoulders and that formerly was abundant in North America but is now reduced to small populations of plains and prairies chie...

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   noun [ C ] us / ˈbʌf·əˌloʊ / plural buffaloes or buffalo. Add to word list. any of various large animals of the cattle family found in Africa, Asia, and North America: The huge herds of buffalo on the Great Plains of the west were hunted almost to extinction.

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   BUFFALO meaning: 1. a large animal of the cattle family, with long, curved horns: 2. a North American bison (= a…. Learn more.

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   Buffalo definition: any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae.. See examples of BUFFALO used in a sentence.

6. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › englishbuffalo noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage...

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   Definition of buffalo noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   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 world, including South Asia's water buffalo and the African buffalo, but the bison is the most well-known type of buffalo in the U.S.

8. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishBUFFALO | meaning - Cambridge Learner's Dictionary

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   BUFFALO definition: a large, wild animal, like a cow with horns: . Learn more.