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Definition of Bubalus
1. Noun. In some classification systems included in genus Bos; water buffaloes.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Asiatic Buffalo, Bubalus Bubalis, Water Buffalo, Water Ox, Anoa Mindorensis, Bubalus Mindorensis, Tamarao, Tamarau
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bubalus
Literary usage of Bubalus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"Life History of the Buffalo Tree-Hopper (Ceresa bubalus.) This little insect is
probably the species of the greatest economic importance of any of this ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"Additional Evidence of the Fossil Musk-Ox (Bubalus moschatus) from the Wiltshire
Drift. By Professor OWEN, FAS This evidence consisted of mutilated crania, ..."
3. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"Bubalus ARNI. The Wild Buffalo (Jerdon's No. 239). NATIVE NAMES. ... This animal
so closely resembles the common Bubalus ami. domesticated buffalo that it ..."
4. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1921)
"I. THE Bubalus IN THE BIBLE. The Latin version of Deut. XIV. 4 and 5 reads: "Hoc
est animal quod comedere debetis; bovem, et ovem, ..."
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