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Noun buffalo has 4 senses
  1. American bison, American buffalo, buffalo, Bison bison - large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
    --1 is a kind of bison
    --1 is a member of genus Bison
    --1 has parts: buffalo
  2. Buffalo - a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
    --2 is a kind of     city, metropolis, urban center
    --2 is a part of New York, New York State, Empire State, NY
  3. buffalo - meat from an American bison
    --3 is a kind of     game
    --3 is a part of American bison, American buffalo, buffalo, Bison bison
  4. Old World buffalo, buffalo - any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
    --4 is a kind of bovid
    --4 is a member of Bovidae, family Bovidae
    --4 has particulars:
     water buffalo, water ox, Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis; anoa, dwarf buffalo, Anoa depressicornis; tamarau, tamarao, Bubalus mindorensis, Anoa mindorensis; Cape buffalo, Synercus caffer
,Verb buffalo has 1 sense
  1. buffalo - intimidate or overawe
    --1 is one way to     overawe, cow
    Sample sentence:
    Sam cannot buffalo Sue
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