buffaloes

Herd on plains

Buffaloes is the plural of buffalo—large, heavy bovines including the Asian water buffalo and the African Cape buffalo.

In North America, buffalo loosely refers to bison.

The verb buffalo means to intimidate or bewilder: The legal jargon buffaloed him completely.

This yields the grammatically valid sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

animals

herd

Grazing animals together

wallow · bovine · mammal · calf · hooves · ungulate · ruminant · horns · hide · prairie

cultural

sacred

Worthy of reverence

hunt · robe · pemmican · Great Plains · frontier · extinction · conservation · Yellowstone · national park · symbol

species

American bison

North America's largest land mammal

culinary

meat

Animal tissue for food

jerky · game · bison meat · mozzarella · milk · ghee · curd · dairy · ranching · grass-fed

Phrases
Family

buffalo, buffaloed

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G