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plain(s) buffalo

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

  See also: buffalo ((n.)) (def. 2)  prairie buffalo  

  • 1890  The annual migration of the plain buffalo was at one time an interesting feature of its life and movement. . . .
  • 1963  And can the decline be stopped or must the barren lands be swept clear of people, leaving the few remaining caribou to become a curiosity like the plains buffalo.