black buffalo

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noun

a buffalofish, Ictiobus niger, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage systems south to Mexico.

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Also called rooter.

Origin of black buffalo

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45

Words nearby black buffalo

black boy, black bread, black bream, black bryony, blackbuck, black buffalo, black bullhead, black bun, Blackburn, Blackburnian warbler, Blackburn with Darwen

How to use black buffalo in a sentence

First, for instance, he saw a herd of 305 black buffalo overtake the sambur host and dash heavily into its rear ranks.
In the Morning of Time|Charles G. D. Roberts
Black Buffalo in turn ordered his men to lay hold upon it and retain the boat.
The Magnificent Adventure|Emerson Hough
Both are painted with figures of buffalo, one with black buffalo, and the other with yellow buffalo.
Blackfeet Indian Stories|George Bird Grinnell
The black buffalo is dead; one camel ditto, and one mule left behind ill.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868|David Livingstone

As anticipated, Black Buffalo and his pirate band were on the hills.
The Conquest|Eva Emery Dye