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Indian buffalo   /ˈɪndiən bˈəfəlˌoʊ/   Listen
Indian buffalo

noun
1.
Upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk.






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"Indian buffalo" Quotes from Famous Books



... "People reckon they're the Indian buffalo," said the bushman. "They were fetched here about fifty years ago from Java—just a few pair, and they were let go and went wild, and now they're all over the face of the earth about here. We've shot six hundred of 'em—just the two rifles—in six months. ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... festooned so as to show off the insignia of each association to the best advantage, panoplies of swords and helmets, escutcheons with broad bands of gold, silver and black, scores of richly mounted drinking-horns, taken from every kind of beast, from the Italian ox, from the Indian buffalo, from the almost extinct ibex, and from the American mountain sheep—gifts from old members of the Korps who had wandered over the world, but had not forgotten their old companions—silver tankards upon brackets, old standards of softened hue projecting out ...
— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford



Words linked to "Indian buffalo" :   water buffalo, water ox, Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis



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