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Definition of Old World buffalo
1. Noun. Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo.
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Generic synonyms: Bovid
Specialized synonyms: Asiatic Buffalo, Bubalus Bubalis, Water Buffalo, Water Ox, Anoa, Anoa Depressicornis, Dwarf Buffalo, Anoa Mindorensis, Bubalus Mindorensis, Tamarao, Tamarau, Cape Buffalo, Synercus Caffer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old World Buffalo
Literary usage of Old World buffalo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark: 194 Essays from the Pages of by Robert A. Saindon (2003)
"The American 'Buffalo' is not the same species as the Old-World buffalo, and
scientists have acted accordingly by applying the term bison to it, ..."
2. The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways: An Analysis of the by Arthur Mellen Wellington (1914)
"... and the same is still more true of even the largest cities of the old world.
Buffalo, therefore, although outdone by many other cities as a traffic ..."
3. Our Big Game: A Book for Sportsmen and Nature Lovers by Dwight Williams Huntington (1904)
"Although related to the Old-World buffalo, the naturalists have decided that our
animal must remain a bison, and the sportsmen, who hereafter will only ..."
4. Our Big Game: A Book for Sportsmen and Nature Lovers by Dwight Williams Huntington (1904)
"Although related to the Old-World buffalo, the naturalists have decided that our
animal must remain a bison, and the sportsmen, who hereafter will only ..."
5. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William Temple Hornaday (1922)
"... Japanese red- faced monkeys and large macaques; many adult bison bulls and
cows of individually bad temper; also gaur, Old World buffalo, anoa bulls, ..."
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