buffalo

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a large animal of the cattle family, with long, curved horns:

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.

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.

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.