Definition of Black buffalo

1. Noun. Fish of the lower Mississippi.

Exact synonyms: Ictiobus Niger
Group relationships: Genus Ictiobus, Ictiobus
Generic synonyms: Buffalo Fish, Buffalofish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Buffalo

black bile
black bindweed
black birch
black bloc
black bodies
black body
black book
black box
black box warning
black boxes
black bread
black bream
black brotus
black bryony
black buck
black buffalo (current term)
black cab
black caiman
black cake
black calla
black caraway
black card
black cardamom
black cards
black carpet beetle
black carpet beetles
black cat
black cataract
black catechu
black chamber

Literary usage of Black buffalo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Dakota Or Sioux Indians: From Their Earliest Traditions and by Doane Robinson (1904)
"Among the Dakotas who were present were Redwing, Smutty Bear, black buffalo and the Partisan. While waiting for the assembling of the council black buffalo ..."

2. Estudios entomológicos y parasitológicos by John Edwin Bakeless, Francis Peloubet Farquhar, David R. Iriarte, Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"When they pid up his son farther along the bank, black buffalo sent i young ... black buffalo helped by throwing a small twist of tobacco on the bank and ..."

3. Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America by Kira Gale (2006)
"They held a council with Brule chiefs, including black buffalo and ... The two chiefs were rivals for power, and Clark noted, "black buffalo Said to be a ..."

4. The Pawnee: Mythology (Part I) by George Amos Dorsey (1906)
"Corn-Woman's little boy wanted the black buffalo-horn spoon and cried for it, but the other boy would not give it up, and so to quiet her son, ..."

5. A History of the Dakota Or Sioux Indians: From Their Earliest Traditions and by Doane Robinson (1904)
"Among the Dakotas who were present were Redwing, Smutty Bear, black buffalo and the Partisan. While waiting for the assembling of the council black buffalo ..."

6. Estudios entomológicos y parasitológicos by John Edwin Bakeless, Francis Peloubet Farquhar, David R. Iriarte, Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"When they pid up his son farther along the bank, black buffalo sent i young ... black buffalo helped by throwing a small twist of tobacco on the bank and ..."

7. Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America by Kira Gale (2006)
"They held a council with Brule chiefs, including black buffalo and ... The two chiefs were rivals for power, and Clark noted, "black buffalo Said to be a ..."

8. The Pawnee: Mythology (Part I) by George Amos Dorsey (1906)
"Corn-Woman's little boy wanted the black buffalo-horn spoon and cried for it, but the other boy would not give it up, and so to quiet her son, ..."

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