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Indian buffalo   /ˈɪndiən bˈəfəlˌoʊ/   Listen
Indian buffalo

noun
1.
Upland buffalo of eastern Asia where true water buffaloes do not thrive; used for draft and milk.






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"Indian buffalo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bull than in the cow, and in the cow-banteng (Bos sondaicus) the horns are remarkably small, and inclined much backwards. In the domestic races of cattle, both of the humped and humpless types, the horns are short and thick in the bull, longer and more slender in the cow and ox; and in the Indian buffalo, they are shorter and thicker in the bull, longer and more slender in the cow. In the wild gaour (B. gaurus) the horns are mostly both longer and thicker in the bull than in the cow." (15. 'Land and Water,' 1867, p. 346.) Dr. Forsyth Major also informs me that ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Indian buffalo" :   water ox, Asiatic buffalo, water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis



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