bubalus bubalis

Questions about bubalus bubalis

What does bubalus bubalis mean?

bubalus bubalis means "an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal".

What is another word for bubalus bubalis?

Close synonyms include water buffalo, water ox, Asiatic buffalo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bubalus bubalis a common word?

bubalus bubalis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.