| 单词 | prairie buffalo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie buffalo prairie buffalo n. †(a) a lizard, the horned toad (genus Phrynosoma) (obsolete); (b) the American bison, Bison bison; spec. = plains buffalo n. at plain n.1 Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [noun] > genus Bison > Bison bison (bison) > varieties of prairie buffalo1806 wood buffalo1837 plain buffalo1859 mountain buffalo1868 wood bison1895 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 29 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 302 A speceis of Lizzard called by the French engages prarie buffalo are native of these plains as well as those of the Missouri. I have called them the horned Lizzard. 1853 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 382 No sooner does my lord..set his foot on our shores—in search of a ‘sensation’, hunting Rocky Mountain bears or prairie buffalo..—than, at once, he is surrounded by gaping and obsequious..republicans. 1908 C. Mair Through Mackenzie Basin 178 Mr. P. Deschambeault remembers seeing, in the early fifties of the last century, two fine albino examples of the prairie buffalo. 2003 Canad. Geographic July 62/1 There have been innumerable hikes through prairie-buffalo ranges and mountain-goat hideaways. < as lemmas |
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