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

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 had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.
Buffalo Bill

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
Buffalo Bill

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.
Ernest Thompson Seton

Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
Ernest Thompson Seton

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.
Josh Holloway

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.
Ellsworth Huntington

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

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
Dennis Banks

Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV.
Kevin McDonald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
Art Buchwald

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
Zebulon Pike

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

It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country.
William Henry Ashley

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen

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

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.
Francis Parkman

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
Jamie Dimon

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?
George Crook

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

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
John H. Speke

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
Jim Messina

My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
Jack Herer

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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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