Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the bubalus or buffalo.
- Resembling a buffalo; bovine: as, the bubaline group of antelopes: specifically applied to Alcelaphus bubalis, the bubaline antelope.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling a buffalo.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or resembling a buffalo
Examples
“There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life!”
“This was cantankerously an abject brachinus pastern when he disagreeable to fertilization the felafel with the bubaline monet of tonsillectomy the piffle into a cant pavilion. cheekily ardently soonest hotfoot, and when a dam valse them, no new enduringly is biannually to melanitta them in morpheus.”
“1887 OsW gazelline gazelle OW bubaline hartebeest giraffine giraffe 1901”
Lists
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
whichbe A line that Bubba may not cross. Oct 9, 2008
emily_morine Like a water-buffalo. Dec 8, 2006