buffalo
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
buffalo/ˈbʌfələʊ/
▶noun (pl. same or buffaloes)
- 1 a heavily built wild ox with swept-back horns. [Synceros caffer (sub-Saharan Africa) and genus Bubalus (India and SE Asia, four species).]
- 2 the North American bison.
■ baffle.
– origin C16: prob. from Port. bufalo, from late L. bufalus, from earlier bubalus, from Gk boubalos ‘antelope, wild ox’.
'buffalo' also found in these Oxford entries:
anoa
- beefalo
- bison
- boofhead
- buff
- buffalo grass
- Buffalo wings
- bufflehead
- mozzarella
- parfleche
- provolone
- scamorza
- water buffalo
