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Definition of Indian buffalo
1. Noun. Upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Buffalo
Literary usage of Indian buffalo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"This is the Indian buffalo (Bos bubalus), whose proper habitat is formed by ...
The distinctive features most easily recognised in the Indian buffalo—the ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of Thw by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"the lifeless form, and The true Indian buffalo is usually shot from the back of an
... When domesticated, the Indian buffalo loses most traces of its ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the ...by Scientific American, inc by Scientific American, inc (1903)
"The Indian buffalo is also employed in marshy fanning districts in Turkey, Hungary,
Italy, and Spain, where it is able to work in ground too wet and soft ..."