Cape buffalo

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Cape buffalo

[After the Cape ofGood Hope.]

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Cape buffalo

(Animals) another name for buffalo¹

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Af′rican buf′falo

a large black buffalo, Syncerus caffer, of Africa, with thick horns that meet at the base. Also called Cape buffalo.

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Noun

Cape buffalo - large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns; mostly in game reserves

Synercus caffer

Old World buffalo, buffalo - any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo

genus Synercus, Synercus, tribe synercus - Cape buffalo

Translations

kafferipuhveli

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Not one in a thousand can afford the $60,000 for a lion, or $25,000 for a Cape Buffalo or $80,000 for an elephant.

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Tim Curry steals the show as the devilish Lord Of Darkness, sporting a pair of horns that would give a cape buffalo an inferiority complex.