buffalo
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1. buffalo - Noun
2. buffalo - Verb
3. Buffalo - Proper noun
Meaning
A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
Any species of wild ox.
The bison of North America.
A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
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A 19-yard completion from Kelly to receiver Andre Reed moved Buffalo out from the shadow of their own end zone, and they eventually reached the Cowboys 46-yard line, but they too were forced to punt.
A beloved Rabbi, he influenced generations of congregants and visiting students and, together with his wife who was an educator, founded Jewish day schools in both Springfield and Buffalo.
According to Indian mythology, Rambha — a demon king– fell in love with a female buffalo and they got married.
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About 300 buffalo race in groups of five or six, spurred on by bareback jockeys wielding wooden sticks, as hundreds of spectators cheer.
Adam Rome, a University of Buffalo environmental historian, documented what happened on and after the first Earth Day in his book The Genius of Earth Day.