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Definition of Buffalo
Buffalo

A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

Any species of wild ox.

The bison of North America.

A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

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Buffalo Quotations

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
Ed Wood

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Sitting Bull

I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
Dan Fogelberg

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.
Gilbert White

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Buffalo Translations

buffalo in Afrikaans is buffel
buffalo in Dutch is buffel, karbouw
buffalo in French is bubale
buffalo in Swedish is buffel, bison


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