American buffalo
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of American buffalo
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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At the end of the 18th century, according to modern estimates, the American buffalo population numbered around 60 million, with herds roaming freely across North America.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2023
Reaching over a barbed wire fence, he scattered the leaves onto the pasture where a growing herd of bison — popularly known as American buffalo — grazed in northeastern Oklahoma.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
A series of semiabstract paintings on paper by Gary Panter — the underground comic artist and designer for the TV show “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” — pertain to the extinction of the American buffalo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2014
Their real plan was to bring back the American buffalo, or ship Chile’s water to Africa.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 17, 2014
Even at that remote period they had already, by long-continued selection, been developed out of wild forms akin to the American buffalo.
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
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