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Meaning of buffalo

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  buffalo
      n 1: large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
           [syn: {American bison}, {American buffalo}, {buffalo},
           {Bison bison}]
      2: a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
      3: meat from an American bison
      4: any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including,
         e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo [syn: {Old World buffalo},
         {buffalo}]
      v 1: intimidate or overawe

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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