prairie buffalo†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of buffalo (def. 2) native to the great plains, a smaller species than the wood buffalo.

Quotations

1908

Mr. P. Deschambeault remembers seeing, in the early fifties of the last century, two fine albino examples of the prairie buffalo. . . .

1934

During recent years some six thousand prairie buffalo have been shipped by rail from Wainwright, Alberta, to Fort McMurray. . . .