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buffalo

buffalo is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 11 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

  2. 2noun

    A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

  3. 3noun

    Any species of wild ox.

  4. 4noun

    The bison of North America.

  5. 5noun

    A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

  6. 6noun

    The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

  7. 7noun

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

  8. 8noun

    large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

  9. 9noun

    meat from an American bison

  10. 10noun

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

  11. 11verb

    intimidate or overawe

Common word forms

buffalosbuffaloedbuffaloesbuffaloing

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