noun any species of wild ox.
2. buffalo ·noun the bison of north america.
3. buffalo ·noun a buffalo robe. ·see buffalo robe, below.
4. buffalo ·noun the buffalo fish. ·see buffalo fish, below.
5. buffalo ·noun a very large and savage species of the same genus (b. caffer) found in south africa;
called also cape buffalo.
6. buffalo ·noun 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.