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BUFFALO
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Irregular inflected form: buffaloes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
Synonyms:
buffalo; Old World buffalo
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("buffalo" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buffalo"):
Asiatic buffalo; Bubalus bubalis; water buffalo; water ox (an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal)
anoa; Anoa depressicornis; dwarf buffalo (small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns)
Anoa mindorensis; Bubalus mindorensis; tamarao; tamarau (small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines)
Cape buffalo; Synercus caffer (large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves)
Holonyms ("buffalo" is a member of...):
Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
Synonyms:
American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("buffalo" is a kind of...):
bison (any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns)
Meronyms (parts of "buffalo"):
buffalo (meat from an American bison)
Holonyms ("buffalo" is a member of...):
genus Bison (sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Meat from an American bison
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("buffalo" is a kind of...):
game (the flesh of wild animals that is used for food)
Holonyms ("buffalo" is a part of...):
American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo (large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Buffalo" is a part of...):
Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intimidate or overawe
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "buffalo" is one way to...):
cow; overawe (subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot buffalo Sue
Context examples:
When I say that I started my pilgrimage at Chicago, graduated in an Irish secret society at Buffalo, gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skibbareen, and so eventually caught the eye of a subordinate agent of Von Bork, who recommended me as a likely man, you will realise that the matter was complex.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The improved survival rate allows infected buffalo to continue to spread TB within the herd.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
Elementary school students sang, Elder Nelson White provided a prayer, and the buffalo were released from a livestock trailer into a into a 48-acre space set aside for them in Kinnear.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
Buffaloes proved soothing and satisfactory, and in her eagerness to amuse another, Beth forgot herself, and was quite unconscious of her sisters' surprise and delight at the unusual spectacle of Beth talking away to one of the dreadful boys, against whom she had begged protection.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Derived from Buffalo stock of H. Morris to the NIH in 1950 and disseminated from Charles River since 1998, the Buffalo is a white albino rat, genotype c. The incidence of spontaneous tumor formation includes anterior pituitary and adrenal cortex in upwards of 30% of aged rats.
(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
For the next four years, the scientists recaptured and retested each buffalo approximately once every six months.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
On Wednesday, October 18, 2019, more than 100 members, reportedly, of the Northern Arapaho Tribe turned out to watch the release of ten buffalo for the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming in the western United States.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
Half the buffalo received treatment for helminths; the rest were left untreated as a control group.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
The Arapaho have plans to widen the buffalo's range to 600 acres and report they are considering eventually pooling resources with the nearby Eastern Shoshone Tribe, who currently have a herd of 33 buffalo.
(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)
In a new study of African buffalo, University of Georgia (UGA) ecologist Vanessa Ezenwa has found that de-worming drastically improves an animal's chances of surviving bovine tuberculosis—but with the consequence of increasing the spread of TB in the population.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
