buffalo

  • 51Buffalo (EP) — Infobox Album Name = Buffalo Type = EP Longtype = Artist = Buffalo Cover size = Caption = Released = 1974 Recorded = Genre = Heavy metal hard rock Length = Label = Vertigo Records Producer = Spencer Lee Reviews = Chronology = Last album =… …

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  • 52buffalo — [[t]bʌ̱fəloʊ[/t]] (The plural can be either buffaloes or buffalo.) 1) N COUNT A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa. Syn: bison 2) N COUNT A buffalo is… …

    English dictionary

  • 53buffalo — I (Roget s IV) n. Types of buffalo include: common or water buffalo, Cape buffalo, American bison, wild ox, African buffalo, Forest buffalo, European bison or wisent; see also animal 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. bison, animal, mammal,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 54buffalo — I. noun (plural lo or loes; also los) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Italian bufalo & Spanish búfalo, from Late Latin bufalus, alteration of Latin bubalus, from Greek boubalos African gazelle Date: 1562 1. any of several wild bovids: as …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 55buffalo — 1. noun /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ,ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/ a) Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape Buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Buabalus bubalis. b) A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison. See Also …

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  • 56buffalo — Cod Cod, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L. gadus merlangus.] (Zo[ o]l.) An important edible fish ({Gadus morrhua}), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 57Buffalo — ► C. del NE de E.U.A., estado de Nueva York, en el extremo oriental del lago Erie; 328 123 h (1 189 288 h su área metropolitana). * * * (as used in expressions) buffalo soldier Buffalo Bill Wood Buffalo, parque nacional …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 58buffalo — buf|fa|lo1 [ bʌfəlou ] noun count a large African animal similar to a cow, with curved horns => WATER BUFFALO a. a large wild animal like a cow with a large head and thick hair on its neck and shoulders: BISON buffalo buf|fa|lo 2 [ bʌfəlou ]… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 59buffalo — [16] English probably acquired buffalo from Portuguese bufalo, originally naming the ‘water buffalo’, Bubalis bubalis, a large oxlike animal of Asia and Africa, and subsequently extended to the ‘Cape buffalo’ of South Africa, Syncerus caffer. The …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 60Buffalo — (Bubalusbubalis)    The Asian buffalo played an important part in the migration of the Romanies from India to Europe. Many Romanies were brought by the Arabs as captives from India to serve as herdsmen in Mesopotamia and from there to the coast… …

    Historical dictionary of the Gypsies