water buffalo

noun

|Updated on: 6 Jul 2018

Definition of water buffalo

: an often domesticated Asian buffalo (Bubalus bubalis synonym B. arnee)

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Recent Examples of water buffalo from the Web

Marco Lanero of Delirious Eyewear is focused on handcrafting frames from materials like water buffalo horn, titanium, beta-titanium, and natural base acetate.

— laird borrelli-persson, Vogue, "Who Is On Next? Winners MRZ and MTF Maria Turri Are Redefining What Made in Italy Means," 2 July 2018
But right now, the Spurs’ Kawhi Leonard predicament looms menacingly, like a water buffalo balancing on a fencepost, threatening to make a mess of everything.

— mike finger, San Antonio Express-News, "As Kawhi drama lingers, Spurs face a leverage problem," 21 June 2018
Sometimes, water buffalo are sacrificed by villagers.

— cleve r. wootson jr., Washington Post, "A man was crushed to death beneath his mother’s coffin," 18 June 2018
Police called in a crane to lift five fugitive water buffalo off a highway in western Germany during an operation that lasted about nine hours.

— Fox News, "German police bring in crane to get 5 buffalo off autobahn," 14 May 2018
The daunting parcels were placed in shopping bags, cardboard boxes, and in the case of Spencer Davis, 33, of Brooklyn, a backpack made from the hide of a water buffalo, which held two boxes as Ms. Davis cycled back home to Bedford-Stuyvesant.

— corey kilgannon, New York Times, "In Bryant Park, 3 Million Bees, Sold From the Back of a Truck," 13 Apr. 2018
There were fewer cars, and herds of water buffalos coming back from the fields.

— james syhabout with john birdsall, Bon Appetit, "Finding the Place Between My Parents’ Immigrant Experience and My Own," 6 Mar. 2018
The crackdown is driving more dairy farmers to swap their cows for water buffaloes.

— anindya upadhyay, Bloomberg.com, "India’s Sacred Cow Now Threatens an $83 Billion Dairy Industry," 23 Jan. 2018
Practitioners promoted alternative ingredients such as water buffalo horn and herbal substitutes.

— jeremy hsu, Scientific American, "The Hard Truth about the Rhino Horn “Aphrodisiac” Market," 5 Apr. 2017

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