Buffalo vs. Bison

Buffalonoun

Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis.

Buffalonoun

A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.

Buffalonoun

A buffalo robe.

Buffalonoun

The buffalo fish.

Buffaloverb

(transitive) To hunt buffalo.

Buffaloverb

To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.

Buffaloverb

To pistol-whip.

Buffalonoun

A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (Bubalus bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

Buffalonoun

A very large and savage species of the same genus (Syncerus Caffer syn. Bubalus Caffer) found in South Africa; - called also Cape buffalo.

Buffalonoun

Any species of wild ox.

Buffalonoun

The bison of North America.

Buffalonoun

A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

Buffalonoun

The buffalo fish. See Buffalofish, below.

Buffalonoun

large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains

Buffalonoun

a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)

Buffalonoun

meat from an American bison

Buffalonoun

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

Buffaloverb

intimidate or overawe

Bisonnoun

A wild ox, Bison bonasus.

Bisonnoun

A similar American animal, Bison bison else Bos americanus or Bisonte americano.

Bisonnoun

The aurochs or European bison.

Bisonnoun

any of several large shaggy-maned humped bovids having large heads and short horns

Bison

Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae. Two extant and six extinct species are recognised.