WATER BUFFALO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water buffalo mean? 

• WATER BUFFALO (noun)
  The noun WATER BUFFALO has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WATER BUFFALO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER BUFFALO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Asiatic buffalo; Bubalus bubalis; water buffalo; water ox

Hypernyms ("water buffalo" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "water buffalo"):

Indian buffalo (upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk)

carabao (water buffalo of the Philippines)

Holonyms ("water buffalo" is a member of...):

Bubalus; genus Bubalus; tribe Bubalus (in some classification systems included in genus Bos; water buffaloes)

 Context examples 

These are usually from cows (bovine) but are also from goats, sheep, reindeer, and water buffalo.

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