American bison
American bison noun - Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains.
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Buffalo and American bison are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Buffalo" instead a noun phrase "American bison".
Buffalo
Buffalo noun - Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains.
American bison and buffalo are semantically related. You can use "American bison" instead a noun "Buffalo".
Nearby Word: buffaloed
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- Nomads who followed the buffalo ("American Bison" for you pedants and tropers not from the Americas); they did actually live in tipis, although there were also several Plains tribes, including the Omaha, that farmed as well.
Source: Useful Notes / Native Americans - For those confused: Buffalo is a city (proper noun), an informal name for the American Bison (noun), and synonym for bully (verb).
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Meanwhile, the civilian versions gained a reputation as being powerful and accurate hunting rifles, with some going so far as to say that the Sharps rifle was the cause of the near-extinction of the North American bison (hence the nickname "the buffalo gun").
Source: Cool Guns / Rifles
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