BUFFALO (buffaloes)

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Irregular inflected form: buffaloes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Buffalo mean? 

• BUFFALO (noun)
  The noun BUFFALO has 4 senses:

1. large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

2. a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)

3. meat from an American bison

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

  Familiarity information: BUFFALO used as a noun is uncommon.

• BUFFALO (verb)
  The verb BUFFALO has 1 sense:

1. intimidate or overawe

  Familiarity information: BUFFALO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUFFALO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo

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 2

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)

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:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

buffalo; Old World buffalo

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)

• BUFFALO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intimidate or overawe

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

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 

Understanding bovine TB-helminth coinfection in African buffalo is particularly relevant for human health because helminths are known to influence human immune responses to TB.

(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)

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.

(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The Professor snorted like an angry buffalo.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Buffalo rat is used most commonly in oncology and carcinogenesis research.

(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

"I think working with the Eastern Shoshone's definitely a possibility. There's no sense in having two private herds," said Devin Oldman, who helped manage the delivery of the buffalo.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

"Your deer are much prettier than our ugly buffaloes," she said, turning to the prairies for help and feeling glad that she had read one of the boys' books in which Jo delighted.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These are usually from cows (bovine) but are also from goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo.

(Dairy Product, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A disorder characterized by signs and symptoms that resemble Cushing's disease or syndrome: buffalo hump obesity, striations, adiposity, hypertension, diabetes, and osteoporosis, usually due to exogenous corticosteroids.

(Cushingoid, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Classic features include moon facies, buffalo hump, obesity, striae and adiposity.

(Cushingoid, NCI Thesaurus)

Oh, how simple it would all have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)