water buffalo

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   an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal

   Synonymswater oxAsiatic buffaloBubalus bubalis

   BroaderOld World buffalo

   NarrowerIndian buffalocarabao

   Part ofBubalus

Questions about water buffalo

What does water buffalo mean?

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

What is another word for water buffalo?

Close synonyms include water ox, Asiatic buffalo, Bubalus bubalis. 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 water buffalo a common word?

water 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.