CAPE BUFFALO

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Cape buffalo; Synercus caffer

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Cape buffalo" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Cape buffalo" is a member of...):

genus Synercus; Synercus; tribe synercus (Cape buffalo)