buffalo : Idioms & Phrases

• noun large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
  American bison; buffalo; Bison bison.
  

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• noun an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
  Bubalus bubalis; water ox; Asiatic buffalo.
  

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• noun fish of the lower Mississippi
  Ictiobus niger.
  

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• (Bot.), a shrub of the Upper Missouri (Sherherdia argentea) with acid edible red berries.

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• noun United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
  William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody; Buffalo Bill; Cody.
  

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• noun United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917)
  William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody; Buffalo Bill; Cody.
  

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• noun a spectacular show organized in 1883 by William F. Cody that featured horseback riding and marksmanship on a large scale; toured the United States and Europe
  Wild West Show.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an African bird of the genus Buphaga, of two species. These birds perch upon buffaloes and cattle, in search of parasites.

Webster 1913

• the carpet beetle. See under Carpet.

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• noun North American nightshade with prickly foliage and racemose yellow flowers
  Solanum rostratum.
  

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• noun a small black and red and white carpet beetle
  Anthrenus scrophulariae.
  

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• noun a piece of dried bovine dung
  cow dung; chip; buffalo chip; cow chip.
  

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• noun a piece of dried bovine dung
  cow dung; chip; buffalo chip; cow chip.
  

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• dry dung of the buffalo, or bison, used for fuel . U.S.

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• noun low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States
  bluebonnet; Lupinus subcarnosus; Texas bluebonnet.
  
• noun clover of western United States
  Trifolium reflexum; Trifolium stoloniferum.
  

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• (Bot.), a kind of clover (Trifolium reflexum and T.soloniferum) found in the ancient grazing grounds of the American bison.

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• (Zoöl.), a large, edible, marine fish (Ophiodon elongatus) of the northern Pacific coast; called also blue cod, and cultus cod.

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• noun any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley
  buffalofish.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of several large fresh-water fishes of the family Catostomidæ, of the Mississippi valley. The red-mouthed or brown (Ictiobus bubalus), the big-mouthed or black (Bubalichthys urus), and the small-mouthed (B. altus), are among the more important species used as food.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a small dipterous insect of the genus Simulium, allied to the black fly of the North. It is often extremely abundant in the lower part of the Mississippi valley and does great injury to domestic animals, often killing large numbers of cattle and horses. In Europe the Columbatz fly is a species with similar habits.

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• noun small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
  blackfly; black fly.
  

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• noun perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
  wild pumpkin; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; calabazilla; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine.
  

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• noun low mat-forming grass of southern United States and tropical America; grown as a lawn grass
  St. Augustine grass; Stenotaphrum secundatum.
  
• noun short grass growing on dry plains of central United States (where buffalo roam)
  Buchloe dactyloides.
  

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• (Bot.), a species of short, sweet grass (Buchloë dactyloides), from two to four inches high, covering the prairies on which the buffaloes, or bisons, feed . [U.S.]

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• noun a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America
  Plains Indian.
  

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• noun oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
  elk nut; oil nut.
  
• noun shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
  Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood.
  

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• (Bot.), the oily and drupelike fruit of an American shrub (Pyrularia oleifera); also, the shrub itself; oilnut.

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• the skin of the bison of North America, prepared with the hair on; much used as a lap robe in sleighs.

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• noun crisp spicy chicken wings
  

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• noun large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves
  Synercus caffer.
  

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• (Zoöl.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2.

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• noun small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns
  anoa; Anoa depressicornis.
  

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• noun upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk
  

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• noun any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
  buffalo.
  

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• noun an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
  Bubalus bubalis; water ox; Asiatic buffalo.
  

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Wa"ter buf"fa*lo

Definitions

1. (Zoöl.) The European buffalo.

Webster 1913