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OLD WORLD BUFFALO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
Synonyms:
buffalo; Old World buffalo
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Old World buffalo" is a kind of...):
bovid (hollow-horned ruminants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old World 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 ("Old World buffalo" is a member of...):
Bovidae; family Bovidae (true antelopes; cattle; oxen; sheep; goats)
