Buffalo

1. n. The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
2. n. A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
3. n. A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; — called also Cape buffalo.
4. n. Any species of wild ox.
5. n. The bison of North America.
6. n. A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.