buffalofish
[ buhf-uh-loh-fish ]
/ ˈbʌf əˌloʊˌfɪʃ /
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noun, plural (especially collectively) buf·fa·lo·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) buf·fa·lo·fish·es.
any of several large, carplike, North American, freshwater fishes of the genus Ictiobus, of the sucker family.
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How to use buffalofish in a sentence
Then the farmers go with a rush and the buffalo fish get scared.
Swatty|Ellis Parker ButlerLook, the finest buffalo fish weve taken this afternoon, Dick!
The Pioneer Boys on the Missouri|Harrison AdamsAnd now, I wonder what kind it is, one of those slippery catfish, or the strongly built buffalo fish.
The Pioneer Boys on the Missouri|Harrison AdamsA darkey caught a catfish to-day that weighed twenty pounds and one he called a buffalo fish that weighed ten pounds.
Diary of an Enlisted Man|Lawrence Van Alstyne
British Dictionary definitions for buffalofish
buffalo fish
noun
any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus : family Catostomidae (suckers)
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