she-buffalo

noun

A female buffalo.

Meanings

nounshe-buffalo (plural she-buffaloes or she-buffalos or she-buffalo)

plural she-buffaloes · plural she-buffalos

  1. A female buffalo.

    In the rainy season, autumn, and early winter, cows and she-buffaloes are to be milked twice per day; […]

    2020, Kenneth R. Valpey, “Milk”, in Cow Care in Hindu Animal Ethics (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Surveying the Cow Care Field), page 128
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    An anti-aphrodisiac, suggested in Hindu erotological literature as a way for women to negate amatory challenges, is to bathe in the buttermilk of a she-buffalo.

    1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 52

    [W]ith the income, they buy more and better food, have bought two she-buffalo and two bullocks and have made improvements in their houses.

    1990, International Agricultural Development, volumes 10–13, Caversham, Reading, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17

Origin

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