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BLACK BUFFALO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black buffalo mean? 

BLACK BUFFALO (noun)
  The noun BLACK BUFFALO has 1 sense:

1. fish of the lower Mississippiplay

  Familiarity information: BLACK BUFFALO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK BUFFALO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fish of the lower Mississippi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

black buffalo; Ictiobus niger

Hypernyms ("black buffalo" is a kind of...):

buffalo fish; buffalofish (any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley)

Holonyms ("black buffalo" is a member of...):

genus Ictiobus; Ictiobus (buffalo fishes)


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