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词汇 buffalo
释义 buffalo
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbʌf.ə.ləʊ/ us /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/pluralbuffaloes or buffalo
a large animal of the cattle family, with long, curved horns: 水牛;野牛
It is common here to see a water buffalo pulling a cart.
One of Italy's most revered delicacies is mozzarella made with buffalo milk.
 
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a North American bison (= a large wild animal, similar to a cow but having a larger head and shoulders covered in hair):
Readers will grow to understand how sacred the buffalo was in building the American West.
 
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Where I come from, we use buffalo to pull a plough.
They farm coriander, pomegranates and buffalo.
Somewhere southeast of El Paso in the early 1530s, the shipwrecked wanderer Cabeza de Vaca first saw the buffalo, or the American bison.
The painting shows buffalo so numerous they darken the plain in their thousands.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cattle & similar animals
Aberdeen Angus
Africander
Alderney
Angus
Ankole
Charbray
Charolais
Chianina
Corriente
cow
Irish Moiled
jersey
Kerry
Kobe
Limousin
Red Angus
Red Poll
Sahiwal
Salers
Sanga
Examples from literature

Some American Indians ate buffalo meat because many buffalo lived near them. 
They had a feast with the meat of the buffalo. 

buffalo | American Dictionary


buffalo
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbʌf·əˌloʊ/pluralbuffaloes or buffalo
any of various large animals of the cattle family found in Africa, Asia, and North America:
The huge herds of buffalo on the Great Plains of the west were hunted almost to extinction.

Examples of buffalo


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Later he pulled off the same feat with a buffalo.
The paths were ruined by buffaloes, which were driven over them in herds to be sold in towns.
Domestic intermediate hosts (cattle, sheep, goats and buffaloes) are major reservoirs for the disease in humans.
Table 2 summarises the distribution of cells to inner cell mass and to trophectoderm in buffalo, cattle and hybrid embryos.
It is a species that occurs in the abdominal cavity of cattle, buffalo, bison, yak and various species of deer, but rarely in sheep.
For this purpose, 100 faecal samples were collected from sheep, goats, cattle and buffaloes.
On the earlier frontier, punk was dry, powdery fuel (from rotten wood to dry buffalo chips) used to help get afirestarted.
Our observations would suggest that the proportion of cells devoted to the trophectoderm fluctuates as buffalo blastocyst development progresses.
The highest offal condemnation was seen in the lungs of sheep (13.4%) and the lowest in the liver of buffaloes (0.4%) (table 2).
However, the elephants were not a great success and the role of the buffaloes was a limited one.
For example, an index of buffalo impact on rain-forest patches could be derived from buffalo tracks observed on historical aerial photography.
The available statistics indicate that there are 1.8 head cattle and 1.6 buffalo per hectare of rice.
The fact that the isolates were made from cattle and buffalo emphasizes the important role which large ruminants play in the epidemiology of the virus.
The large majority of the isolates (104) came from cattle, rather than buffalo blood (4).
We assume that buffaloes are born into a susceptible class.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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