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But just as the Head Bull of the buffalo was about to rip the life from the second leopard that had attacked the yearling herder it was as if a question and answer had passed between them.

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  1. noun Any of several oxlike Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the water buffalo and African buffalo.
  2. noun The North American bison, Bison bison.
  3. noun The buffalo fish.
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  • In the eyes of a sportsman, the buffalo is a glorious prey. —  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
  • "It might be that a buffalo is a kind of ox, only browner," Augustus said. —  Lonesome Dove
  • But just as the Head Bull of the buffalo was about to rip the life from the second leopard that had attacked the yearling herder it was as if a question and answer had passed between them. —  The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
  • The buffalo, which is certainly the most dangerous of all African wild beasts, is attacked by lions only when the buffalo is alone and the lions are many in company At four in the morning of the 1st of June we left Miveruni. —  Freeland A Social Anticipation
  • And the buffalo are as many as the blades of grass. " —  The Boat of a Million Years
 

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  1. Italian bufalo or Portuguese or Spanish búfalo, from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, antelope, buffalo, from Greek boubalos, perhaps from bous, cow; see gwou- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. In early modern English usually buffe, buffle (see buff, buffle) = Dutch buffel = Middle Low German buffel = Middle High German buffel, German büffel = Swedish buffel = Old Danish buffel, böffel, Danish böffel (from French buffle); in the form buffalo, from Spanish búfalo = Portuguese bufalo, bufaro = Italian bufalo, bufolo, bubalo, formerly buffalo, = Provencal bubali, brufol, brufe = French buffle = Walloon bivol = Hungarian bival, bial = Alb. bual, bul = Russian buĭvolŭ, buĭlo = Little Russian baĭvol, buĭvol, buĭlo = Polish bujwol, bawol (barred l) = Bohemian buvol = Servian bivo = Old Bulgarian buivolŭ, Bulgarian bivol, from Middle Latin bufalus, buffalus, bufolus (New Latin bubalus, also as specific name buffelus), from Latin bubalus, the wild ox, earlier and more properly an African antelope (= New Greek βούβαλος, βουβάλι, a buffalo), from Greek βούβαλος, also βούβαλις, an African species of antelope, perhaps the hartbeest; prob. (simulating Greek βοῡς, an ox) from a native African name.
 

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