buffalo

BUH-fuh-loh

meaning in plain English

A big, strong animal with horns that lives in groups, like the kind you might see on farms or in wild herds in Africa or Asia.

Picture a huge, horned beast chewing grass, a buffalo—like a living couch you could sit on in the wild.

for example

The farmer had to build a tall fence to keep the buffalo from wandering into his crops.

Imagine a massive cow with curved horns that charges when it feels threatened. Why do we call these animals buffalo? Because that’s what they’ve always been called, even though they’re not the same as the American bison people sometimes mix them up with.