| 单词 | water buffalo |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater buffalo water buffalo n. (a) either of two Asian buffaloes of the genus Bubalus that frequently wallow in water or mud, the domesticated B. bubalis, used esp. as a beast of burden and for tilling rice fields, and its probable ancestor, the wild buffalo B. arnee of South-East Asia (now endangered); (b) the African buffalo, Syncerus caffer (rare).Water buffaloes were domesticated in India and China 4-5,000 years ago and are now found worldwide. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [noun] > Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo) buffle?c1510 buffalo1588 water-ox1615 ante1625 buffa1710 water buffalo1827 1827 C. E. H. Orpen Contrast Atheism Paganism & Christianity 172 The great water buffalo, from Bombay; his horns are black; his body black. 1900 Stud. Zool. (Cincinnati Zool. Garden) 57 Cape Buffalo Enclosure. This animal is found in South Africa. It frequents damp and marshy places, and because of its partiality for swamps is called the Water Buffalo. 1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xx. 129 In the rice fields of India plod the water buffalo, subdued to the will of the children that tend them. 2003 M. Ali Brick Lane i. 16 And the mynah birds called from the trees, and the goats fretted by, and the big sad water buffaloes passed like a funeral. < as lemmas |
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