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buffalo bird

noun

  1. a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of buffalo bird1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

He hand-pollinated the corn to encourage diversity in the garden, and studied gardener Buffalo Bird Woman’s 1917 account of Hidatsa agriculture.

I met with community elders and connected with Native chefs, historians and academics, such as the ethnobotanist Nancy J. Turner, and the Lakota author Joseph Marshall III, while also discovering rare historical accounts like “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden,” the memories of a 19th-century Hidatsa farmer who lived in what is now North Dakota.

Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony.

The buffalo bird warns its big friend of danger, by calling "Chachacha," and the rhinoceros bird cries out, "Tye, tye, tye, tye," for the same purpose.

The Manyuema call the buffalo bird "Mojela," and the Suaheli, "Chassa."

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