buffalo
noun
any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae.
buffaloes
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pluralof buffalo.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Another woman, Goma Pandit, said she had lost her buffaloes and all her other cattle.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her father, a club cricketer and clerk at the district court, sold milk from the family's four buffaloes to support the household.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
Faced with poaching and the gradual destruction of their natural habitats, big mammals have largely disappeared, according to the survey which underlined the need to protect chimpanzees, buffaloes and elephants.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
It has some of the fewer than 100 remaining critically endangered mountain bongos in the world, alongside rhinos, elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards and others.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Fiddler crabs scurry when you’re ten yards away; howler monkeys stir in their branches when you’re at twenty; African buffaloes react at seventy-five.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
