Reference meaning

buffalo

noun·Reference

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large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

Related source terms

american bisonamerican buffalobison bison

Other meanings

2. noun

a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)

3. noun

meat from an American bison

4. noun

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

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