Meanings
nounbuffalo fish (countable and uncountable, plural buffalo fishes or buffalo fish)
plural buffalo fishes
- countableuncountableAny of several North American freshwater sucker fishes of the genus Ictiobus, similar to carp but having a humped back.
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