BUFFALO (buffaloes)
Dictionary entry overview: What does Buffalo mean?
• BUFFALO (noun)
The noun BUFFALO has 4 senses:
1. large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
2. a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
3. meat from an American bison
4. any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
Familiarity information: BUFFALO used as a noun is uncommon.
• BUFFALO (verb)
The verb BUFFALO has 1 sense:
1. intimidate or overawe
Familiarity information: BUFFALO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BUFFALO (noun)
Meaning:
Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo
Hypernyms ("buffalo" is a kind of...):
bison (any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns)
Meronyms (parts of "buffalo"):
buffalo (meat from an American bison)
Holonyms ("buffalo" is a member of...):
genus Bison (sometimes considered a subgenus of genus Bos: American buffalo)
Meaning:
A city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Buffalo" is a part of...):
Empire State; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Meaning:
Meat from an American bison
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("buffalo" is a kind of...):
game (the flesh of wild animals that is used for food)
Holonyms ("buffalo" is a part of...):
American bison; American buffalo; Bison bison; buffalo (large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains)
Meaning:
Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Old World buffalo; buffalo
Hypernyms ("buffalo" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "buffalo"):
Asiatic buffalo; Bubalus bubalis; water buffalo; water ox (an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal)
anoa; Anoa depressicornis; dwarf buffalo (small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns)
Anoa mindorensis; Bubalus mindorensis; tamarao; tamarau (small buffalo of Mindoro in the Philippines)
Cape buffalo; Synercus caffer (large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves)
Holonyms ("buffalo" is a member of...):
Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)
• BUFFALO (verb)
Meaning:
Intimidate or overawe
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Hypernyms (to "buffalo" is one way to...):
cow; overawe (subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot buffalo Sue
