BŬF'FA-LŌES

[It. & Sp. bufalo, Fr. buffle, Ger. büffel, büffel-ochs. Bohem. buwol, Pol. bawol, N. Lat. bos bubalus; Lat. bubalus, Gr. βούβαλος, a kind of African stag or antelope; but it was also used for urus, a wild ox, as Pliny mentions.]

1Sense 1. (Zoöl.) A species of the genus Bos (Bos 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. The name is also applied to wild oxen in general, and particularly, but erroneously, to the bison of North America. See BISON. Cuvier.

2Sense 2. A buffalo-robe.

3Sense 3. (Ichth.) A fresh-water fish resembling the sucker. Bartlett.