buffalo

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

buf·falo [buffalo buffaloes] BrE [ˈbʌfələʊ] NAmE [ˈbʌfəloʊ] noun (pl. buf·faloor buf·faloes)
1. a large animal of the cow family. There are two types of buffalo, the African and the Asian, which has wide, curved horns.
see also ↑water buffalo
2. = ↑bison

Word Origin:
mid 16th cent.: probably from Portuguese bufalo, from late Latin bufalus, from earlier bubalus, from Greek boubalos ‘antelope, wild ox’.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  Old World buffalo, Buffalo, American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison