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WATER BUFFALO

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• WATER BUFFALO (noun)
The noun WATER BUFFALO has 1 sense:

1. an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal

Familiarity information: WATER BUFFALO used as a noun is very rare.

• WATER BUFFALO (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Asiatic buffalo; Bubalus bubalis; water buffalo; water ox

Hypernyms ("water buffalo" is a kind of...):

buffalo; Old World buffalo (any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water buffalo"):

Indian buffalo (upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk)

carabao (water buffalo of the Philippines)

Holonyms ("water buffalo" is a member of...):

Bubalus; genus Bubalus; tribe Bubalus (in some classification systems included in genus Bos; water buffaloes)

"In for a penny, in for a pound."
(English proverb)
"A starving man will eat with the wolf."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"Seek education from the cradle to the grave."
(Arabic proverb)
"Still waters wash out banks."
(Czech proverb)

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