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Definition of Asiatic buffalo
1. Noun. An Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal.
Generic synonyms: Buffalo, Old World Buffalo
Group relationships: Bubalus, Genus Bubalus, Tribe Bubalus
Specialized synonyms: Indian Buffalo, Carabao
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asiatic Buffalo
Literary usage of Asiatic buffalo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba) by Elijah Middlebrook Haines (1888)
"Linnaeus found it a peculiar species, to which he applied the term bison as
contradistinguished from the Asiatic buffalo. The term buffalo appears ..."
2. Mostly Mammals, Zoological Essays by Richard Lydekker (1903)
"... described in another article, which is not much larger than a good- sized ram,
and has upright horns quite unlike those of the ordinary Asiatic buffalo. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Several species of wild buffaloes roam in the interior, and the Asiatic buffalo
has been naturalized in the north. The camel, common in the north as a beast ..."
4. Mostly Mammals, Zoological Essays by Richard Lydekker (1903)
"... described in another article, which is not much larger than a good- sized ram,
and has upright horns quite unlike those of the ordinary Asiatic buffalo. ..."
5. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"The Asiatic buffalo are further distinguished from the African species, by having
the hair on the front part of the back directed forward, as well as by a ..."
6. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George Perkins Marsh (1865)
"The same or an allied species and the Asiatic buffalo were carried to South
Carolina about the year 1850, and the former, ..."
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