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   What does Buffalo mean?

   • búfalo, bisonte… búfalo, bisão-americano, bisonte-americano… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! BUFFALO definition: 1. a large animal of the cattle family, with long, curved horns: 2. a North American bison (= a….

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   How did Buffalo get its name?

   • This Latin word for wild ox later passed into Italian as bufalo and into Spanish as búfalo. From these languages the English picked it up and gave it the spelling buffalo. When English settlers arrived in America, they gave the name buffalo to the big, shaggy animal that scientists prefer to call bison.

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   What is the difference between a buffalo and a bison?

   • 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.

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   Why is it called a water buffalo?

   • Eventually the Latin word, in its Late Latin form būfalus, became the name for the water buffalo when it was introduced to Europe. Būfalus developed into buffalo in Italian and búfalo in Portuguese and Spanish, and then English borrowed buffalo, with the sense "any of various species of large bovine animals," from one or more of these languages.

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   ˈbəf-ə-ˌlō. plural buffalo or buffaloes. : any of several wild mammals related to oxen: as. a. : water buffalo. b. : cape buffalo. c. : a large shaggy-maned North American mammal with short horns and heavy forequarters with a large muscular hump.

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   BUFFALO definition: 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.

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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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   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. You can also use the word as a verb, meaning ...

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   A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.

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   Define buffalo. buffalo synonyms, buffalo pronunciation, buffalo translation, English dictionary definition of buffalo. A city of western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie on the Canadian border.