Buffalo

1. Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains. Millions of buffalo roamed the prairies in the U.S. past.
2. A city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls). We visited Buffalo in 1984.
3. Meat from an American bison. Buffalo hamburger is low in fat.
4. Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo. Water buffalo can be used as a beast of burden.