0 a large animal of the cattle family, with long, curved horns:
One of Italy's most revered delicacies is mozzarella made with buffalo milk.
Readers will grow to understand how sacred the buffalo was in building the American West.
1 any of various large animals of the cattle family found in Africa, Asia, and North America:
They farm coriander, pomegranates and buffalo.
Somewhere southeast of El Paso in the early 1530s, the shipwrecked wanderer Cabeza de Vaca first saw the buffalo, or the American bison.
The painting shows buffalo so numerous they darken the plain in their thousands.
Some American Indians ate buffalo meat because many buffalo lived near them.
Later he pulled off the same feat with a buffalo.
The paths were ruined by buffaloes, which were driven over them in herds to be sold in towns.