Definitions
Large bovine, especially a bison.
Word origin
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
Used in a sentence
“"It must be a very wild stretch of country, and full of big game. I have always wanted to kill a buffalo before I die."”
“And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.”
“From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims / And to the buffaloes who once ruled the plain / Like the vultures / Circling beneath the dark clouds / Looking for the rain / Well, they've been looking for the rain”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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