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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.

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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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  • The sacrifice of the buffalo was an even greater matter; a special priest came from Bbadrapur, with a big scimitar sharpened for the occasion. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Hunting the buffalo is a manly and interesting sport; and, as Kit Carson on this occasion engaged in it with successful results, it might be interesting to the general reader, and, in this place the unity of the narrative seems to require, a complete and practical description of the manner of taking the buffalo. —  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
  • "Based on the reaction of the zebras, we think they determined that the buffalo were a threat, and a predator-prey response was triggered," the release said. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Funk told authorities the buffalo were attacking him and damaging his property. —  greatfallstribune.com - Local News
  • Here the dried dung of the buffalo was their only fuel; and it has continued to feed the camp-fire of the traveller in this treeless region within the memory of many now living. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
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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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