buffalo
/ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/noun, verb3 syllables
Buffalo means: large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains.
Synonyms for buffalo13
noun, as in large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison
noun, as in any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo
Old World buffalo
also used for buffalo
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What does buffalo mean?5
noun
1
large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
2
any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo, Cape buffalo
3
a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
4
meat from an American bison
verb
1
intimidate or overawe
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Buffalo in a sentence
- For lions, a buffalo is much easier to kill than a giraffe.Amastan
- Drive the buffalo out of the rice fields.LeeSooHa
- I will drink buffalo sauce straight from the bottle.Teangloir
- How much grass does a buffalo eat per day?Amastan
- Why are you looking for a white buffalo?Choctaw_Irish
- The buffalo was eaten alive by the lions.Amastan
- Mozzarella di bufala is made from the milk of water buffalo.Hybrid
- Oleg found fresh buffalo tracks heading in that direction.Amastan
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Forms of buffalo
as a noun
- plural
- buffaloes
as a verb
- third-person singular
- buffaloes
- present participle
- buffaloing
- past participle
- buffaloed
- past tense
- buffaloed