American buffalo

American  

noun

1. bison.

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Etymology

Origin of American buffalo

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Example Sentences

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

As the disk of the sun slowly emerges, I can make out small black silhouettes grazing in the distance: herds of American buffalo and Przewalski’s horses.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2015

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

We now come to the American buffalo, or Bison, as it should be called.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William