bubaline

bubaline
/byooh"beuh luyn', -lin/, adj.
1. (of antelopes) resembling or like the bubal, as the hartebeests or blesbok.
2. pertaining to or resembling the true buffaloes.
[1820-30; < L bubalinus. See BUBAL, -INE1]

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