old world buffalo

Questions about old world buffalo

What does old world buffalo mean?

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

What is another word for old world buffalo?

Close synonyms include 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 old world buffalo a common word?

old world buffalo 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.