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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large, domesticated buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) of Asia that has large spreading horns and is used especially as a draft animal. The wild water buffalo is sometimes described as a different species, B. arnee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
watercow .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) The European buffalo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
ungulate , widely used as a domestic animal in Asia, South America. North Africa and Europe. - noun US, colloquial A
water tank mounted on atrailer to be towed by a motor vehicle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
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