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.
Wiktionary
- adj. zoology Resembling or pertaining to a buffalo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) 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
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bubaline’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
babeldom, baccate, bacchanal, bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous, bacillicide, backstay, bactericide, baculiform, baculine, baculum and 582 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...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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Rabindranath Not Included
i can't never forget thiccyn's!
bubaline, dezinkhornifistib..., hirundine, bee veil, cuckoo spit, resistentialism, hobthrush, burniebee, hookem-snivey, fattiehead, mompyns, mons and 144 more...
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Animal-ine
feline, leonine, vulpine, canine, ranine, elephantine, serpentine, cervine, ovine, porcine, aquinine, asinine and 171 more...
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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 7756 more...
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lines
line-know-of-them
guy line, chorus line, party line, front line, foul line, life line, love line, bottom line, red line, credit line, by line, dotted line and 106 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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antelopes
addax
a large light-coloured antelope with curled horns. L. from an African word quoted by Pliny.
antelope
any one of a group of hollow-horned...addax, antelope, antilopine, ariel, blackbuck, blaubok, bluebuck, bloubok, blesbok, blesbuck, bok, bongo and 479 more...
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Animals
porcine, vulpine, musteline, martine, phocine, myrmecophagine, bubaline, caprine, cervine, lapine, ovine, bosine and 14 more...
Tweets
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whichbe A line that Bubba may not cross. Oct 9, 2008
emily_morine Like a water-buffalo. Dec 8, 2006