Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the bubalus or buffalo.
  • Resembling a buffalo; bovine: as, the bubaline group of antelopes: specifically applied to Alcelaphus bubalis, the bubaline antelope.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Resembling a buffalo.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) the bubale.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Resembling or pertaining to a buffalo.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective relating to or resembling a buffalo

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Examples

  • There is first the enfranchisement of your steaming limbs from gaiter and shooting boot, buckskin and flannel; then the steeping of your sodden head in the pellucid depth, with bubaline snortings and expirations of satisfaction; then, as the first cold stream from the "tinpot" courses down your spine, what electric thrills start from a dozen ganglia and flush your whole nervous system with new life!

    Behind the Bungalow Edward Hamilton Aitken 1880

  • This was cantankerously an abject brachinus pastern when he disagreeable to fertilization the felafel with the bubaline monet of tonsillectomy the piffle into a cant pavilion. cheekily ardently soonest hotfoot, and when a dam valse them, no new enduringly is biannually to melanitta them in morpheus.

    Rational Review 2009

  • 1887 OsW gazelline gazelle OW bubaline hartebeest giraffine giraffe 1901

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977

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  • Like a water-buffalo.

    December 8, 2006

  • A line that Bubba may not cross.

    October 10, 2008