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nounPlural buffaloes ˈbʌfələʊˈbəf(ə)ˌloʊ 1A heavily built wild ox with backswept horns, found mainly in the Old World tropics. 水牛 a wild ox with large horns, native to Africa south of the Sahara (Synceros caffer, family Bovidae, the African buffalo), sometimes considered to be two species, the Cape buffalo and the forest or dwarf buffalo. four species native to South Asia (genus Bubalus, family Bovidae).See also water buffalo, anoa Example sentencesExamples - Endangered species include tapir, guar and banteng, wild buffalo, serow, red dog, Asiatic elephant, and leopard.
- As quick as lightning the buffalo whirled around and caught my foot with her crooked horn and came very close to goring the horse.
- Home to numerous crocodiles and hippo, the Great Ruaha draws many thirsty waterbuck, leopard, buffalo, reedbuck, wild dogs, lion and hyena to its banks.
- The world's largest concentrations of eland, forest buffalo and roan antelope were virtually destroyed.
- Wild cats, buffaloes, bears and elephants would all be kept and then made to fight one another.
- Inbreeding has also plagued wild elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, and antelope populations.
- Along the banks we caught sight of both the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa.
- The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.
- The fearsome figure - astride a buffalo with menacing horns - is Lord Yamadharma, the ultimate arbiter of your life here and hereafter.
- There are leopard, buffalo, elephants and wild dogs, however, so one needs to be wary.
- Anecdote from field notes: Zulu praise-singers hail the buffalo as the wild ox that defied taming by generations of kings.
- Volcanic outcrops of rock silhouette the skyline and farmers work the fertile land with their buffaloes heavily plodding through the muddy, shimmering soil as they pull aged ploughs.
- Elephants, forest buffalo, bush pigs, leopards, gorillas, chimpanzees, and several monkey species roam the forests.
- This area is of vital importance, not only for the babirusa but also for the anoa (an endemic dwarf buffalo), the tiny, giant-eyed spectral tarsier and the locally endemic Heck's macaque.
- The Aurochs itself may have been descended from a cattle kind including bison and water buffaloes.
- In addition, the teams surveyed the numbers of other plants and animals including endangered golden monkeys, elephants, and forest buffalo.
- These species, all of which are under threat due to illegal harvesting, included Grants gazelle, Thomsons gazelle, dik-dik, eland, impala, waterbuck, warthog, plains zebra, Cape buffalo and Masai giraffe.
- The tamaraw, the very rare dwarf buffalo of Mindoro that is the Philippines' national animal; Heude described that, and we found the type specimen.
- The wild buffalo are the remnants and descendants of a 100-strong herd kept under the Kanyuan Bridge more than a decade ago by Li Pi-e.
- A woman jumped into the fray, slapped the thief and then led the buffalo by the horns to safety.
- 1.1 The North American bison.
美洲野牛 Example sentencesExamples - On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump.
- It was conducted mainly among the buffalo hunting groups of the plains region.
- Local people depended on turtles much the way native North Americans depended on the buffalo.
- Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch posits that the site should be turned into a park full of free-roaming American bison, popularly known as buffalo.
- Nationally, 41 separate tribes now belong to the Intertribal Bison Cooperative, whose sole mission is buffalo restoration.
- The menu features game, namely rabbit, pigeon, venison and pheasant, and from time to time buffalo and wild boar.
- These once hosted and boosted millions of bison, a large North American mammal of the buffalo tribe.
- The buffalo of North America could once numbered in the tens of millions, but were reduced to near-extinction by systematic slaughter during the 19th century.
- That is definitely a load to be reckoned with and also explains why they were able to kill such large animals as grizzly bears and buffalo with a six-gun even back then.
- This year my contribution was a buffalo, an American bison.
- Two hundred years ago, bison, aka buffalo, roamed North America in massive herds.
- They have introduced the bison - better known as the buffalo of Hollywood westerns - to Hornby Castle, near Bedale.
- Those cattle have been used as an excuse for the Montana Department of Livestock to slaughter thousands of America's last wild herd of buffalo.
- The smaller European relative of the American buffalo, called the European Bison or Wisent, suffered a similar fate.
- In the Lamar Valley a buffalo ranch was established where bison were bred and fed for the viewing enjoyment of the public.
- Unlike captive ranched buffalo, which are now relatively common, the Yellowstone buffalo herd has never interbred with cattle and has retained its wild character.
- ‘The country was one black robe,’ said early explorers on the North American continent as they surveyed the herds of buffalo.
- The American bison, which is commonly called a buffalo, is not on the U.S. Endangered Species List.
- Over their shoulders are what look like buffaloes or bison.
- Many of North America's buffalo were already gone by the time the notorious hide hunt started on the Great Plains.
2A large greyish-olive freshwater fish with thick lips, common in North America. 牛胭鱼 Genus Ictiobus, family Catostomidae: several species Example sentencesExamples - Smallmouth buffalo are esteemed above all suckers from a culinary standpoint.
- The buffalo [a native variety of the carp] now swish sluggishly around him, some pushing half-heartedly on the nets.
- Catch of common carp was generally high during 1958-1975 and has decreased since; harvests have approximately doubled for buffalo fishes, catfishes and freshwater drum during 1945-1999.
- Big carp, even bigger buffalo and hundreds of panfish flopped helplessly in the pasture's tall fescue and dried up cow patties.
verbbuffaloes, buffaloing, buffaloedˈbʌfələʊˈbəf(ə)ˌloʊ [with object]North American informal 1Overawe or intimidate (someone) 〈北美，非正式〉吓唬；威吓，恫吓 she didn't like being buffaloed 她不喜欢别人威吓她。 Example sentencesExamples - First they tried to buffalo voters with the odd assertion that North Dakota banks don't sell their customers' information, so there's no need to worry.
- But it does seem to be a guy who will come out the way he would like in every case - and is not going to be buffaloed by Professor Tribe's hand-picked law clerks any more than he is buffaloed by Professor Tribe.
- Long-term tests provide an extended look at a winning engine, a year's worth of thrashing that helps assure Best Engines judges haven't been buffaloed by a slick beauty cover and handsome output figures.
- ‘How are we going to get in? ‘the Duke asked, determined not to be buffaloed by a camel.’
- The Australian government has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty but still seems to have been buffaloed by the totally unsubstantiated claim that carbon dioxide is harmful.
Synonyms intimidate, daunt, cow, take someone's breath away, awe, disconcert, blind someone with something, unnerve, discourage, subdue, abash, dismay, frighten, alarm, scare, deter, terrify, terrorize, browbeat, bully - 1.1 Baffle (someone)
为难；阻碍；使困惑 the problem has buffaloed the advertising staff 这个问题让广告部的人很为难。 Example sentencesExamples - A disease that has buffaloed scientists, veterinarians, and bison ranchers is yielding some of its secrets.
- Nor does the director ask the question: How was the entire management of a prestigious publication buffaloed by an imaginative, but essentially juvenile, ruse?
- Check the facts thoroughly for yourself, or risk getting buffaloed.
- It's harder to buffalo the public in compressed time.
Synonyms baffle, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confuse, confound, nonplus, disconcert, throw, throw off balance, disorientate, take aback, set thinking
OriginMid 16th century: probably from Portuguese bufalo, from late Latin bufalus, from earlier bubalus, from Greek boubalos 'antelope, wild ox'. proper nounˈbʌfələʊˈbəf(ə)ˌloʊ An industrial city in New York State; population 270,919 (est. 2008). Situated at the eastern end of Lake Erie, it is a major port of the St Lawrence Seaway.
nounˈbəf(ə)ˌlōˈbəf(ə)ˌloʊ 1A heavily built wild ox with backswept horns, found mainly in the Old World tropics. 水牛 see African buffalo four species native to southern Asia (genus Bubalus, family Bovidae). See also water buffalo, anoa Example sentencesExamples - Wild cats, buffaloes, bears and elephants would all be kept and then made to fight one another.
- Anecdote from field notes: Zulu praise-singers hail the buffalo as the wild ox that defied taming by generations of kings.
- This area is of vital importance, not only for the babirusa but also for the anoa (an endemic dwarf buffalo), the tiny, giant-eyed spectral tarsier and the locally endemic Heck's macaque.
- Inbreeding has also plagued wild elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, and antelope populations.
- Volcanic outcrops of rock silhouette the skyline and farmers work the fertile land with their buffaloes heavily plodding through the muddy, shimmering soil as they pull aged ploughs.
- Home to numerous crocodiles and hippo, the Great Ruaha draws many thirsty waterbuck, leopard, buffalo, reedbuck, wild dogs, lion and hyena to its banks.
- Along the banks we caught sight of both the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa.
- In addition, the teams surveyed the numbers of other plants and animals including endangered golden monkeys, elephants, and forest buffalo.
- The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.
- The tamaraw, the very rare dwarf buffalo of Mindoro that is the Philippines' national animal; Heude described that, and we found the type specimen.
- The Aurochs itself may have been descended from a cattle kind including bison and water buffaloes.
- The fearsome figure - astride a buffalo with menacing horns - is Lord Yamadharma, the ultimate arbiter of your life here and hereafter.
- There are leopard, buffalo, elephants and wild dogs, however, so one needs to be wary.
- A woman jumped into the fray, slapped the thief and then led the buffalo by the horns to safety.
- The world's largest concentrations of eland, forest buffalo and roan antelope were virtually destroyed.
- As quick as lightning the buffalo whirled around and caught my foot with her crooked horn and came very close to goring the horse.
- Elephants, forest buffalo, bush pigs, leopards, gorillas, chimpanzees, and several monkey species roam the forests.
- Endangered species include tapir, guar and banteng, wild buffalo, serow, red dog, Asiatic elephant, and leopard.
- The wild buffalo are the remnants and descendants of a 100-strong herd kept under the Kanyuan Bridge more than a decade ago by Li Pi-e.
- These species, all of which are under threat due to illegal harvesting, included Grants gazelle, Thomsons gazelle, dik-dik, eland, impala, waterbuck, warthog, plains zebra, Cape buffalo and Masai giraffe.
- 1.1 The North American bison.
美洲野牛 Example sentencesExamples - Over their shoulders are what look like buffaloes or bison.
- These once hosted and boosted millions of bison, a large North American mammal of the buffalo tribe.
- They have introduced the bison - better known as the buffalo of Hollywood westerns - to Hornby Castle, near Bedale.
- This year my contribution was a buffalo, an American bison.
- Many of North America's buffalo were already gone by the time the notorious hide hunt started on the Great Plains.
- Local people depended on turtles much the way native North Americans depended on the buffalo.
- On the eastern side of the bluff, the bones of extinct species of bison attest that the promontory was once used as a buffalo jump.
- Two hundred years ago, bison, aka buffalo, roamed North America in massive herds.
- Nationally, 41 separate tribes now belong to the Intertribal Bison Cooperative, whose sole mission is buffalo restoration.
- That is definitely a load to be reckoned with and also explains why they were able to kill such large animals as grizzly bears and buffalo with a six-gun even back then.
- The buffalo of North America could once numbered in the tens of millions, but were reduced to near-extinction by systematic slaughter during the 19th century.
- Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch posits that the site should be turned into a park full of free-roaming American bison, popularly known as buffalo.
- The menu features game, namely rabbit, pigeon, venison and pheasant, and from time to time buffalo and wild boar.
- It was conducted mainly among the buffalo hunting groups of the plains region.
- Those cattle have been used as an excuse for the Montana Department of Livestock to slaughter thousands of America's last wild herd of buffalo.
- The smaller European relative of the American buffalo, called the European Bison or Wisent, suffered a similar fate.
- ‘The country was one black robe,’ said early explorers on the North American continent as they surveyed the herds of buffalo.
- In the Lamar Valley a buffalo ranch was established where bison were bred and fed for the viewing enjoyment of the public.
- Unlike captive ranched buffalo, which are now relatively common, the Yellowstone buffalo herd has never interbred with cattle and has retained its wild character.
- The American bison, which is commonly called a buffalo, is not on the U.S. Endangered Species List.
2A large grayish-olive freshwater fish with thick lips, common in North America. 牛胭鱼 Genus Ictiobus, family Catostomidae: several species Example sentencesExamples - Catch of common carp was generally high during 1958-1975 and has decreased since; harvests have approximately doubled for buffalo fishes, catfishes and freshwater drum during 1945-1999.
- The buffalo [a native variety of the carp] now swish sluggishly around him, some pushing half-heartedly on the nets.
- Big carp, even bigger buffalo and hundreds of panfish flopped helplessly in the pasture's tall fescue and dried up cow patties.
- Smallmouth buffalo are esteemed above all suckers from a culinary standpoint.
verbˈbəf(ə)ˌlōˈbəf(ə)ˌloʊ [with object]North American informal 1Overawe or intimidate (someone) 〈北美，非正式〉吓唬；威吓，恫吓 she didn't like being buffaloed 她不喜欢别人威吓她。 Example sentencesExamples - But it does seem to be a guy who will come out the way he would like in every case - and is not going to be buffaloed by Professor Tribe's hand-picked law clerks any more than he is buffaloed by Professor Tribe.
- ‘How are we going to get in? ‘the Duke asked, determined not to be buffaloed by a camel.’
- First they tried to buffalo voters with the odd assertion that North Dakota banks don't sell their customers' information, so there's no need to worry.
- Long-term tests provide an extended look at a winning engine, a year's worth of thrashing that helps assure Best Engines judges haven't been buffaloed by a slick beauty cover and handsome output figures.
- The Australian government has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty but still seems to have been buffaloed by the totally unsubstantiated claim that carbon dioxide is harmful.
Synonyms intimidate, daunt, cow, take someone's breath away, awe, disconcert, blind someone with something, unnerve, discourage, subdue, abash, dismay, frighten, alarm, scare, deter, terrify, terrorize, browbeat, bully - 1.1 Baffle (someone)
为难；阻碍；使困惑 the problem has buffaloed the advertising staff 这个问题让广告部的人很为难。 Example sentencesExamples - Nor does the director ask the question: How was the entire management of a prestigious publication buffaloed by an imaginative, but essentially juvenile, ruse?
- A disease that has buffaloed scientists, veterinarians, and bison ranchers is yielding some of its secrets.
- Check the facts thoroughly for yourself, or risk getting buffaloed.
- It's harder to buffalo the public in compressed time.
Synonyms baffle, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, perplex, puzzle, confuse, confound, nonplus, disconcert, throw, throw off balance, disorientate, take aback, set thinking
OriginMid 16th century: probably from Portuguese bufalo, from late Latin bufalus, from earlier bubalus, from Greek boubalos ‘antelope, wild ox’. proper nounˈbəf(ə)ˌlōˈbəf(ə)ˌloʊ An industrial city in the northwestern part of the state of New York; population 270,919 (est. 2008). Located at the eastern end of Lake Erie, it is a major port on the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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