buffalypso

alternative Buffalypso

1. A variety of water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), developed in 1949 by Trinidad veterinarian Stephen Bennett for meat and haulage.

   If we were able to substantially increase the size of Trinidad and Tobago's buffalypso herd, we would have an extremely valuable export commodity.

   1984, New Zealand Veterinary Association: Dairy Cattle Society, Proceedings of the Seminar, page 127

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   These techniques would also promote the exploitation of unique material, such as the buffalypso of Trinidad and Tobago and blackbelly sheep of Barbados.

   1989, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Strategy of Action for Reactivation of Agriculture in the Caribbean Countries, page 44

   Driving south from Port of Spain along the Uriah Butler highway, you will see sugar, citrus and rice fields, maybe a few buffalypso (buffaloes which have been selectively bred for meat), and Hindu temples and mosques.

   2014, Sarah Cameron, Trinidad and Tobago Footprint Focus Guide, →ISBN, page 58..

1. Alternative letter-case form of buffalypso.

   The development of the Buffalypso is due mainly to the work of Dr S. P. Bennet, while he was working at a local sugar company.

   1988, Desmond Hill, Cattle and Buffalo Meat Production in the Tropics, page 80

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   When Scott and Alice first moved into Pastora seven years ago, having grown up in areas where grotesque sprawling houses covered most of the land, they were excited by all the green fields with the Buffalypso, the old cocoa estates, and even the fires in the hills around the Vale at night.

   2007, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Four Taxis Facing North, page 104

   There are now about 6000 buffalo in Trinidad, of which fewer than half are of the Buffalypso type. However, the Buffalypso has been exported to 19 countries in the past and so its gene pool remains in several Latin American countries and the USA.

   2016, Valerie Porter, Lawrence Alderson, Stephen J.G. Hall, Mason's World Encyclopedia of Livestock Breeds and Breeding, →ISBN, page 963