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| beefalo |
the hybrid offspring of beef cattle and the American buffalo. |
| bison |
a hoofed, shaggy, cud-chewing mammal with a large head and forequarters, short curved horns, and a hump at the shoulders, found in North America; buffalo. [1/2 definitions] |
| buff1 |
a soft, thick yellow leather made from the buffalo hide or the hide of other animals. [1/8 definitions] |
| Cape buffalo |
a large, fierce, black buffalo native to southern Africa whose horns form a helmetlike structure. |
| carabao |
the water buffalo. |
| cow1 |
the female of various other large animals such as the buffalo, elephant, and whale. [1/2 definitions] |
| hide2 |
the skin of one of the larger animals such as a buffalo or cow. [1/3 definitions] |
| Pan American Exposition |
a world's fair held in 1901 in Buffalo, New York, where the use of electricity was the highlight and at which U.S. President William McKinley was assassinated. |
| Plains Indian |
a member of any of the buffalo-hunting, seminomadic North American Indian peoples that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. |
| water buffalo |
a large, slow, powerful buffalo of tropical Asia with flattened, curved horns, often domesticated as a draft animal. |
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