Definition of "water buffalo" [wa•ter buf•fa•lo]

• A large buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) of Asia, often domesticated especially as a draft animal and having large spreading horns. Also called carabao, water ox. (noun)

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• "Kudra took to the marriage bed the way a water buffalo takes to a mud wallow."
• "It tells of a man named Don Lamu, who strolled out to move his water buffalo onto pasture and “got an attack from a komodo which caused a very serious pain which needed a very long cure.”"