old world buffalo

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbuffalo

   Broaderbovid

   Narrowerwater buffaloanoatamarauCape buffalo

   Part ofBovidae

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.