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buffalo

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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buf·fa·lo /ˈbʌfələʊ $ -loʊ/ noun (plural buffaloes or buffalo) [countable]  1. HBAan African animal similar to a large cow with long curved horns 水牛 water buffalo2. HBAa bison 犎牛,北美野牛
Examples from the Corpus
buffaloThey can also catch kinds of prey that they could not catch by themselves, such as buffalo.Coat buffalo steaks with oil and season to taste with salt and pepper.Grazing buffalo knocked over the satellite dish, so a bamboo fence has had to be built around it.I am out here alone, unprotected, only a thin piece of plastic-canvas away from lions, buffalo, leopards and hyena.It is illustrated with drawings of buffalo, giraffe, warthog and camp scenes, and describes a rhino hunt.Despite its size, the buffalo is a very fast animal and can run up to thirty-five miles per hour.When the buffalo were slaughtered, they lay so thick on the ground that you could walk for miles on the bodies.We ate raclette and gelato and haggis and reindeer and zebra and water buffalo.
nBuffalo  na port at the northeast end of Lake Erie near Niagara Falls in the state of New York, in the US
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large Corpus animal a an African cow to similar


buffalo
buffalo /ˈbʌfələʊ $ -loʊ/ noun (plural buffaloes or buffalo) [countable]
1. an African animal similar to a large cow with long curved horns ⇨ water buffalo
2. a bison


Buffalo
Buffalo
a port at the northeast end of Lake Erie near Niagara Falls in the state of New York, in the US


buf·faloBrE /ˈbʌfələʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʌfəloʊ/ 🔊 noun (
plural
buf·falo
or
buf·faloes
)
a large animal of the cow family. There are two types of buffalo, the African and the Asian, which has wide, curved horns. 水牛(分非洲水牛和亚洲水牛两种)   see also water buffalo = bison


BuffaloBrE /ˈbʌfələʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʌfəloʊ/ 🔊an industrial city in the US state of New York, situated at the eastern end of Lake Erie 布法罗(美国纽约州工业城市,位于伊利湖东端)