Definition of buffalo Buffalo

/bʌˈfʌlowˌ/ - [bufulow] - Buf•fa•lo

We found 22 definitions of buffalo from 7 different sources.

What does buffalo mean?

Noun Plural: buffalos
buffalo - meat from an American bison
		game an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games"
buffalo - a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
buffalo - any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
		Old World buffalo
		bovid hollow-horned ruminants
		bovidae, family bovidae true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats
		asiatic buffalo, bubalus bubalis, water buffalo, water ox an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
		anoa, anoa depressicornis, dwarf buffalo small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns
		anoa mindorensis, bubalus mindorensis, tamarao, tamarau small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines
buffalo - large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
		American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison
		bison any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
		genus bison sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo
Verb buffalos, buffaloing, buffaloed
buffalo - intimidate or overawe
		cow, overawe subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

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buffalo (Noun)
A related North American animal, the American bison , Bison bison .
buffalo (Noun)
A buffalo robe.
buffalo (Noun)
The buffalo fish .
buffalo (Verb)
To hunt buffalo.
buffalo (Verb)
To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
buffalo (Verb)
To pistol-whip.

buffalo (n.)
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.
buffalo (n.)
A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
buffalo (n.)
Any species of wild ox.
buffalo (n.)
The bison of North America.
buffalo (n.)
A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
buffalo (n.)
The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

buffalo
The second largest city in New York State. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River. (source Wikipedia)
buffalo
A wild heavy bison of the species Bison bison, having a broad massive horned head.

buffalo
buf′a-lō, n. a genus of the ox kind, the tame, often domesticated Asiatic buffalo, and the entirely wild and fierce Cape buffalo. The so-called American buffalo is really a 'bison.' [It. buffalo, through L. from Gr. boubalos.]